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...David Maxwell Fyfe, sometimes known as "deadpan David." A lawyer, he "took silk" when he was 33; only one man in British legal history did it at an earlier age, and that was in 1668. Attorney General in 1945, he was deputy chief prosecutor at the N¨urnberg trials...
...this creature, regarded even by his best friends as childlike, reach the eminence of criminality that had him described at N¨urnberg as one whose "guilt is unique in its enormity?" Journalist Willi Frischauer, a Viennese who went to Britain as a foreign correspondent in 1935 and has lived there ever since, gives some of the answers in an admirable, well-documented biography. Not only has Frischauer pondered Goering's career from womb to ash can; he has also won the confidence of such key figures as Goering's widow, his valet and some of his military...
...only motive which guided me," Goering testified at the N¨urnberg trial, "was my ardent love for my people." No doubt the statement seemed true to him at that dramatic moment-because it was just the right statement for that moment. Swayed by many principles, guided by none, and moved deeply only by a profound sense of the drama of his own life, Goering lived by whim, hunch, and egotism. He alone of the Nazi leaders could have signed the anti-Semitic N¨urnberg Laws and then, at his wife's plea, intervened to save a number...
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