The Allies at last published the list of 24 top Nazis who will be tried in a group as war criminals under the general charge of conspiracy to wage aggressive war. Specific charges, probably, will be brought against each criminal—the Rotterdam and Coventry bombings against Hermann Goring; wholesale murder against Hans Frank, former Nazi overlord of Poland.
All but one of the 24 were in custody. The exception was Martin Bormann, Hitler's deputy and closest adviser in the final days. Contradictory reports that Bormann had or had not been found continued to fly between the Allied capitals.
The list had no...
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