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Senator Robert Taft, a hairsplitter to his enemies, a Blackstone to his friends, exploded a bomb under his fellow Americans. Before a somewhat startled conference of assorted intellects at Kenyon College last week (see EDUCATION), he denounced the Nürnberg trials...
...They violate that fundamental principle of American law that a man cannot be tried under an ex post facto statute. The hanging of eleven men convicted at Nürnberg will be a blot on the American record that we shall long regret...
Taft, in effect, could see no basic difference between international and civil law. He indicated that little was gained at Nürnberg and much was lost. He doubted "whether the hanging of those who . . . were the leaders of the German people, will ever discourage the making of aggressive war, for no one makes aggressive war unless he expects...
Julius Streicher, brutish publisher of Nürnberg's Der Stürmer, No.1 i Jew-baiter of the regime and possessor of what was said to have been the world's largest collection of pornographic literature...
...Emmy Göring, Frau von Ribbentrop, Frau Schacht, et al. Now, for those who had escaped death there was ahead a fast trip to prison. For the rest, the eleven who had been sentenced to death, there was the gallows, reportedly within two weeks "in the Nürnberg area...