WAR CRIMES: Under the Hammer

U.S. and British prosecutors worked in relays. Ever-new assistants stepped briskly to the stand with ever-new documents. Their task: to prove that the deeds which the indictment labeled "crimes against humanity" had been committed by individual human beings, just like the murder or the bank-robbery around the corner. Under the hammer of evidence, alibi after alibi cracked open.

Cold Eyes. There was Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop's protestation that he had been a statesman, not a Storm Trooper. Declared the prosecution: he had specifically approved the lynching of Allied flyers, and had...

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