"The ways of war are inscrutable ways," said Field Marshal Albert Kesselring at his surrender in 1945. When a British war crimes court sentenced him to death for the reprisal killings by German troops of 1,413 Italian civilians, Kesselring did not deny his responsibility (TIME, May 19). "If there is any guilt," he said stoutly, "it is mine and mine alone." To his defense came distinguished British soldiers. Said Lieut. General Sir Oliver Leese, who commanded the British forces opposite Kesselring : "He was a gallant soldier who fought well and squarely. If things had gone the other way, the man...
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