In Berlin's high-ceilinged Kammergericht last week the International Military Tribunal formally indicted 24 top Nazis as war criminals. For 50 solemn minutes the session proceeded in English, Russian, French and German. The presiding judge, Russian Major General I. T. Nikitchenko, quoted from the 25,000 word indictment: the U.S., France, Britain and Russia "hereby accuse [the defendants] as guilty . . . of crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity and of a common plan or conspiracy to commit these crimes. . . ."
Next day Allied officers handed copies of...
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