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...Himmler's chief of all counter-partisan activities in the Soviet Union, testified that Germany's official aim had been to exterminate 30 million Slavs. The High Command, he said, had been well aware of this. Shouted Goring, once again losing his serene composure: "Dirty dog! Damned traitor...
...Traitor William ("Lord Haw-Haw") Joyce, 39, played chess with a warder till midnight, then went to bed in his Wandsworth cell. Chief Hangman Albert Pierrepoint, 37, made things snug for his first solo job since taking over from his Uncle Thomas, then went to bed in the prison library. At 6 Joyce rose and washed, but did not bother to shave. At the gallows Pierrepoint was waiting. Round the neck of the frozen-faced traitor, he expertly draped the noose. Then he sprang the trap...
...Nazis liked his talent for obscurity. They put him in charge of their "special fund," and he moved quietly about, buying up opposition leaders and organizing traitor units in other political parties...
...into the masculine world of journalism. Three months ago she reported Lord Haw-Haw's trial in a memorable piece for the New Yorker. Last week, in a 13-column essay in the same magazine, Reporter West covered the eight-minute trial of The Crown v. John Amery, traitor. Her piece showed up the run-of-the-mine court reporter as the deadline-hurried, space-confined newsman he generally...
...grim years. In October, the King awarded the rare Imperial Order of the Crown of India to Mrs. Florence Amery. Five weeks later the Amerys' elder son stood in the dock at Old Bailey and heard a judge intone:"John Amery, you now stand a self-convicted traitor to your King and country, and you have forfeited the right to live...