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...Governor Wept. It was not all the prosecution's show. The defendants had their moments. There was a half hour of bickering between defense and prosecution over whether Rudolf Hess, supposedly an amnesia victim, should be tried. Hess rose, informed the court that he had faked his amnesia for tactical reasons, that he wanted to be tried with his comrades. Said he: "Mr. President ... as of now, my memory is again in order...
...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...
...Bolsheviks at Ekaterinburg. All his life Alexander was obsessed by fear and hatred of the Red Russians; they called Yugoslavia "the graveyard of Communists." When Alexander was assassinated at Marseilles in 1934, his son Peter, a shy, eleven-year-old who dreamed of being a radio mechanic, wept: "But I don't want to be a king...
...realize it at first, but there were many other lonely, unhappy or troubled people who also wanted to see a vision. People came to talk to him, and to see the place on the hill. They brought flowers and votive candles, and ailing children and crippled sisters, and the wept-over photographs of sons killed in the war. They watched, hopefully and awestruck, while Joe kept his nightly vigil. The crowd grew; people came from as far away as Cleveland; last week, on the 17th night, 30,000 jammed into the dirty lot and the nearby streets...
While Rosalinda testified, the Japanese general Yamashita stared coldly at the table before him. In the audience many people wept...