Foreign News: Is Anyone Guilty?

The Nazi elite were gathering again at Nürnberg. But the old Parteitag pomp and mass hysteria were gone. This time the leaders had to make their speeches in prison cells, where they awaited trial by the United Nations War Crimes Commission for being Nazis and starting the war. Most of them were hard at work on their defense. Chances were they would claim to be guilty only of German patriotism.

The list of those indicted was a Nazi Who's Who: former Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, Air Minister Hermann Göring, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop,...

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