WAR CRIMES: Prosit Neujahr!

Refreshed by their twelve-day vacation, the 20 defendants filed back into Nürn-berg's courtroom. But even the arrogant Nazi war criminals could not work up much enthusiasm for wishing each other Prosit Neujahr (Happy New Year). Slowly but surely the case against them was building up. The Allied prosecution continued to pile up evidence, detailing their guilt with an endless chain of chilling facts. The civilized world, like the Nazis, might have become bored with these horror stories—a U.S. reporter muttered: "0 God, more of the same!"—but the prosecution had more to tell....

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