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Present, as at a Kaffeeklatsch in the good old days, were Frau Field Marshal Göring, Frau Deputy Führer Hess, Frau Reichsminister Funk, Frau Governor General Frank, Frau Youth Leader von Schirach.* These wives and widows of Germany's war criminals awaited their own judgment day in a camp near Augsburg. Bavaria's Denazification Ministry was about to try them as "profiteers...
...Augsburg, denazification authorities jailed Emmy Göring for trial on a charge of having been a Nazi. Also jailed after long thought: the widow of Poland's Governor General Hans Frank, the wives of ex-President of the Reichsbank Walther Funk, ex-Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach...
Baldur von Schirach, 39-year-old head of the Hitler Youth organization; 20 years...
...many of his fellow defendants -who had hoped to find refuge in their fields of public opinion, industry, finance -blanched as Jackson inexorably linked men like Journalist Streicher ("the venomous vulgarian") to Banker Schacht ("facade of starched respectability"); Diplomat von Ribbentrop ("salesman of deception") to Youth Leader von Schirach ("poisoner of a generation"); Diplomat von Papen ("pious agent of an infidel regime") to Slave Labor Boss Sauckel ("the cruelest slave driver since the Pharaohs...
...Bavarian folk tales, but was much disturbed by stomach cramps, which made him rock back & forth on his bench. (Unimpressed, his U.S. doctor advised him to keep rocking.) The only display of what the Germans call Galgenhumor (humor of the gallows) came from ex-Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach. Said he, as he was served dinner in his cell: "If the victuals continue to get better, they'll be serving us steak by the time they hang...