Word: rosenberger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that he might never practice again. Said Blaha: "Orders frequently were received at Dachau for skulls. Teeth counted a great deal. ... It was dangerous to have a soft, fine skin or good teeth. . . . Soft human skin was prized for leather and bindings. . . ." Pointing an accusing finger at Philosopher Alfred Rosenberg, Reichsbank President Walter Funk, Labor Boss Fritz Sauckel and Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick, the witness said that they had visited Dachau concentration camp, and had watched its atrocity show. (The four in the dock sat bolt upright, clenching the rail before them...
There were signs that at least two of the judges were not convinced that the prosecution was proving its case against even the intermediate echelons. Bald, stocky Sir Geoffrey Lawrence, presiding judge, cut in with some sharp questions. Storey read a letter from Reichsleiter Martin Bormann to Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg. Lawrence asked what the correspondence had to do with block leaders. Again, when Storey read an anti-Jewish police order from Himmler's Gestapo headquarters to district police chiefs, Lawrence interrupted: the letter's topic seemed to him a police, not a party matter. U.S. Judge Francis Biddle...
Individual defendants were inexorably linked to definite crimes against humanity. Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel was not always engrossed in high strategy; he assisted in rounding up slave labor by order ing Polish homes burned. Alfred Rosenberg, the philosopher, was involved in an order that babies born to Russian women on slave-labor trains be thrown from the windows. Albert Speer, Director of War Production, urged more SS brutality to accelerate the working pace of the slaves...
Bald Fritz Sauckel had preserved an air of head-shaking detachment from his fellow criminals. But when a document was introduced showing that even Rosenberg had asked Sauckel to use restraint in his treatment of the slaves, he bowed his bullet head...
...accused in the dock were gripped by the horror they had created. Hess watched in tense fascination. Göring reddened when the film was three-quarters through, gazed fixedly at his lap until the film was over. Keitel mopped his brow and covered his eyes. Alfred Rosenberg, the philosopher, looked away frequently, nervously picked with his nails at splinters in the guard rail before him. Ribbentrop remained calm, shook his head in disbelief. Hans Frank, ex-Governor General of Poland, wept...