Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 July 1946 — Page 4
war, theye are no slain, there has| defendants, although less compres been no crime.” hensive and less spectacular than Mr. Jackson expressed belief that|that of the reichmarshal, were the defendants had been given | nevertheless: integral and necessary
Fir Prosecutor Blames bd d f M t to state their | contributions to the Joint under- | 2 War Leaders for Murder wdeauate opportunity 1 sate hei contrition They have been given the kind Duritz his lengthy summation, | 2 Million: Death Asked. 8 trial which they, in the days| Jackson told the court he could
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of their pomp and power, never gave| only outline the high ‘points of the By DUDLEY ANN HARMON to any man," he said, trial “which will live as the his-| United Press Stall Correspondent
. Mr. Jackson noted wryly that the torical text of the twentieth cen-! NUERNaERC. July 26.—Robert H. Jackson, chief American prose- defendants had been: unanimous in shame and depravity.”
cuter. today called en the war orimes tribunal to eonviet 23 rank shifting the blame to Hitler, Hein-| Mr. Jackson listed the following ing Nazis on charges of war guilt and crimes which the British prosecu- | rich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, and | rive groups of “overt” Nasi acts on . tion charged ingluded a minimum of 13,000,000 “calculated deliberate | Martin Bormanhn--all dead or miss-
which he based his recommendation | that the guilty:
in ‘The prdgecution, led by Mr. Jackson, opened the summation of elght| defendants be found
months of testimony against 3? 2 i ONE: Seizure of power and subazis uding Martin Bore | his stinging denunciation left little pressed the defendants on the op N ine tried in doubt shat he wanted the Nasi lead- | stand,” Jackson declared, “the vy) asation of etna hi Folige mann, who Is being ers to pay with their lives for their have never pointed a finger at Blin 1035. Mr Jackson said: wires) - Sbsentia although he MAY BS BMG. "wad and = melancholy” crimes living man as guilty. were tapped, party members spied Mr. Jackson did not mention the against humanity. “It fs a temptation to ponder the| nousehoids, Individual penalty specifically but the § {on households, individuals were death Points te Nazi Falsehoods wondrous workings of a fate which | British prosecutor, Sir Hartley 4 dragged off to “protective custody,” x : pe| The defendants include Rudolf|hAs left only the guilty dead an | judges were ousted for political or | Shawcross, demanded the Nazis only the innocent alive, It is almost executed “ common murder.” Hess, former Nazi deputy; Ernst racial reasons and threats of death! for oruti< ox too remarkable.” were constantly leveled at non-| Goering Hides Face Kaltenbrunner, head of the Nazi | Jackson said he would not dispute |. o members. “Having sneaked The defendants listened to Mr. secret police, and Frana Von Papen, the defendants’ premise that Hitler .
| X through the portals of power,” he| Jackson with varying Reydjion. | the “Gray Fox” of German diplo-|was the chief Nazi villain. He char- added, “the Nazis slammed the gate Reichmarshal Hermann Goering, | macy in two wars,
{acterised the fuehrer as a “Mad|, 1.0 face of all others who might whose conduct has been listless el | Messiah” J vbe starie Lie i ‘without “*° aspire to enter.” SI 8 mnie, SH the indictment, but only 21 were in| I pe | Defied Treaties hands when Mr. Jackson called him the dock. But, he added, the Nazis on trial] TWO: Preparation and waging “half militarist and half gangster.”
Only the Dead Guilty? “No matter how hard we have
Twenty-four Nazis were named in|
Mr. Jackson declared that Ger-| were members of Hitler's “great wars of aggression—‘“from the mao- | Oneé-time foreign minister Rib-/Mman documents of “unquestioned conspirital brotherhood” and must ment the Nazis seized power, they | bentrop appeared drawn and angry. |authenticity™ proved that the Nazis| nay for their crimes “one by one.” Set about feverish but stealthy ef- | He conferred occasionally Bin Here sly of crimes in peace as Also Their Acts fore, in Selidnes 9 Me, Versailles ilhelm Hotiing and Wield Marshal Wilbe He implored the court to lgnore| “These men: destroyed free goV- Tracing Germany's war progress Mr. Jackson was followed by Sirjoral defense testimony which, he ernment in Germany and now plead from 1939 to its declaration of war Hartley, who told the court 12.-|sald, was loaded with “lies, double- |i, pe excused from responsibility | on the United States on Dec. 11, 000,000 was “the lowest computa- | talk, fantastic explanations, absurd pacause they became slaves (of Hit |1941, Mr. Jackson said “these were | tion" of Nasi murders “done not in professions, flimsy excuses and jor)» Jackson asserted. “They are unlawful wars of aggression in battle, not in passion, but in & cold, | | paltry Seasons in the position of the fictional boy Breach of treaties and in violation Deceived World for Years | who murdered his father and moth-|0f assurances.” “The fact 3} that the Nazi habit of er and then pleaded for leniency] THREE: Warfare in disregard] grate traditions, institutions and he | tari n the use of truth because he was an orphan, of international law—he referred to! very existence of free and ancient/ pulls the foundation out from under| “What these men have overlooked | the “revolting” details of starv-| their own defense,” Mr Jackson lis that Adolf Hitler's acts are their | ing, beating, murdering, freezing! All Played Key Roles |asserted. “Lying has always been| {acts. They intoxicated him with and mass extermination invoked on “Twelve million murders,” Sir|a highly approved Naz technique. power and adulation. They put a| | captured peoples, ‘particularly the! Hartley thundered. “Two-thirds of “When for years they have de-|loaded gun in his eager-hands. It Russians. He. said some Russian | the - Jews of Europe exterminated ceived the world, and masked false- was left to Hitler to pull the trig-|war.prisoners were forted' to man =<more than six million of them on hood with plausibilities, can any-| ger, and when he did they all at anti-aircraft guns against "allied the killers’ own figures.” one be surprised that they continue |ihat time approved. | planes and the German navy adIn & 20,000-word summation of the habits of a lifetime in this] “Nowhere do we find an instance | vised its submarines against res-| the prosecution's efforts in the dock?” where any one of the defendants|cuing crews of torpedoed allied! eight-month trial, Mr. Jackson said Mr, Jackson declared that the stood up against the rest and said,| ships. He also pointed to the shoot- | there was fo doubt that each de- Nakis used the deceiving back-|‘This thing is wrong and I will | ing of British and American air-| féndati Dlayed & key role in seek... ‘or their testimony to ask not go along with it. | men, mistreatment of western pris- | ing to place the world under the the tribunal to clear them of plan- | “Wherever they differed, their | °Ders of war “in obedience to high- | executing or conspiring to| differences were as to mdthod or | ¢st levels of authority.”
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J ning, 4 Mien a. mand te denn en commit the long list of crimes with disputes over jurisdiction, but al- ais Enslavement and plun- | ; | which they are charged. ways within the framework of the er of populations in occupied { 1) “Ciiven's Tale Trial common plan.’ | countries. Jackson said that male & zi agents went hunt-| i “The time has come for final Assails Goering ing for men, got them drunk and
Check I Fi k tching judgment and if the ease I present | In his summation, Mr. Jackson | ‘Shanghaied” them into Germany. rst Application seems hard and uncompromising” singled Goering out for some spe-| Goering, he added, was “urging his itching of ugly eosems, Reali | he added, “it is because the evi-|cial treatment, describing him as People to give up every comfort
« . while he rushed around con- » Pimples, Scabies, To: dence makes it so. “half militarist and half gangster.” W Wh 16 checked on ONE APPLICATION 0 |» fiscating art by the trainioad. .. & BLUB STAR OINTMENT. Repeat a| LL YOU Were to say of these men |He said that the former luftwaffe
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! meso 48 nature helps heal, Money back 1 | that they are not guilty, it would chief “stuck a pudgy finger in every Churches Destroyed # WERST jar fails to satisty. Try it today | De as true to say there has been no! pie.” | FIVE: Persecution and exter- : iii “He used his SA muscles -men to mination of Jews and Christians 3 {help bring the gang into power, "|“The Nazi movement will be of 7 {Jackson said. “In order to en-|eyil memory in history because o 3 ha Dr. D. E. TaVel | trench that power he contrived to; bond Jo of oy JEWS. > i y : {have the reichstag burned, estab- | 4 Registered OPTOMETRIST |lished the grieve and created the | MOS fas Sng sa i radial t { ersecution of all time,” he 3 ! SCIENTIFIC EYE EXAMINATIONS jeonecentratiy camps. | Persecus of the thoroughness ly S and EYE SERVICE He was aly adept ot MAS" | anti-Semitic program, Mr. Jackson Be 3 |sacreing opponents and at framing|said that the Jews of Europe no : = No Appointment Necessary | scandals to get rid of stubborn gen-|longer exist as a race. He cited : | erals. He built up the luftwaffe| German figures which showed that ¥ NG 1 Office ‘and hurled it at his defenseless|an estimated 6,000,000 Jews were a At ir 3 (neighbors. He was, next to Hitler, put to death. He added that the ¢ |the man who tied the activities of | Gestapo appointed “church spe- < dl [7 v1 Ww all the defendants together in a clalists,” who were instructed to de- ' I — [ common effort. stroy the confessional churches. 3 4 WES ako “The parts played by the other| . ‘The prosecution .submits that 3 haa [these five categories of premedit tated crimes were not separate and
independent phenomena,” Mr. Jackson declared, “but that all were commited pursuant to a common plan or conspiracy.” Defendants Listed Other defendants standing trial in addition to Goering, Hess, Von Ribbentrop, Kaltenbrunner and Von Papen are: Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi ideologist: Hans Frank, governor of occupied Poland; Martin Bormann, being tried in absentia and who was! chief Nasi deputy; William Frick, “protector” of Bohemia-Moravia: Robert Ley, leader of the Nazi labor front, who killed himself; Fritz Sauckel, chief of Nazi slave labor: | Albert Speer, armaments minis-| ter; Walter Punk, president of the Reichsbank; Hjalmer Schacht! minister of economics; Constantin! ji Van Neurath, also “protector” for| Bohemia and Moravia; Baldur Von Shirach, Nazi youth leader; Arthur | Seyss-Inquart, Nazi chancellor of Austria and reichscommissar in the | low countries; Wilhelm Keitel, chief | of the high command; Alfred Jodl, | army chief of staff; Erich Raeder, | grand admiral of the navy: Karl | Doenitz, commander in chief of the! German’ navy, who succeeded Hitler | as Nazi chief; Hans FPritaschke, propaganda director under Goeb- | bels; Gustav Krupp Von Bohlen! und Halbach, indystrialist and) president of the Reich union of German industry who was excused from the trial because of illness, and Julius Streicher, most rabid of the Nazi anti-Semites.
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