Word: von
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Heinrich 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...
...five glassy-eyed locksmiths in the dock (three generals, two admirals) then heard Colonel Taylor read a damning affidavit by one of their own clique. Its author was Field Marshal Werner Eduard Fritz von Blomberg, who had been German War Minister until 1938, when he was given the boot, ostensibly for marrying a prostitute. Wrote Blomberg: ". . . There was no reason to oppose Hitler since he produced the results which [the generals] desired...
...France and Germany he took care to pick shining lights of the resistance. Outstanding selections: small, half-paralyzed Archbishop Jules-Géraud Saliege of Toulouse, who during France's occupation openly attacked German treatment of Jews and conscription of Frenchmen; massive, blue-blooded Bishop Clemens August von Galen of Munster, whose anti-Nazi sermons and pastorals nearly cost him his life; benign, bald Bishop Konrad von Preysing of Berlin, who, when the Nazis came into power, said publicly: "We have fallen into the hands of criminals and fools." Typical Spanish appointment: small, bespectacled Archbishop Enrique Pla y Deniel...
Earlier in the week the defendants enjoyed themselves, nudging each other and laughing as documents and films recount ed their days of power. Rudolf Hess applauded Hitler on the screen. Former Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop wept, watching Hitler in a screaming speech and in an aside to U.S. Army Major Douglas Kelley, court psychiatrist, said: "Can't you just feel Hitler's tremendous personality? For us it was the most fearfully stimulating thing that has ever happened in our lifetime...
...meeting with Hitler in 1939, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Keitel outlined the kind of strategic terror they intended to use in the Polish war. Plans were made for the complete liquidation of Poland's intelligentsia, nobility, clergy and resistance movements. Ribbentrop's pet project was a "spontaneous" revolt of Ukrainians, during the course of which a considerable number of Poles would be slaughtered...