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Fritzsche was
"I have been tricked and
acquitted by the IMT.
trapped by the Himmler murder
He said, "I am entirely
machine, even when I tried to
overwhelmed--to be
Fritzsche, Hans put a check on it...Let us
Fritzsche was one of two set free right here, not
Head of the Radio explain our position to the Fritzsche's radio broadcasts
defendants turned over to the IMT even to be sent back to
Division, one of world, so that at least we won't (he was a popular
130 die under this awful burden of commentator) included strong
by Russians.... Fritzsche often Russia. That was
twelve departments in appeared on the verge of a more than I hoped
Goebbel's Propoganda shame." (11/21/45) "I have the Nazi propoganda.
breakdown during the trial. for." He was later
Ministry feeling I am drowning in
tried and convicted by
filth....I am choking in
a German court, then
it."--(2/21/46, after watching
freed in 1950. He died
film of atrocities).
in 1953.
"I signed the laws for the
Funk agreed with Himmler to
aryanization of Jewish
receive gold from the SS Funk said, "The only accusation I
property. Whether that makes
(including gold teeth and can make to myself is...that I Funk was sentenced to
me legally guilty or not, is
rings taken from those killed should have resigned in 1938 when life imprisonment by
another matter. But it makes me
in concentration camps) and I saw how they robbed and the IMT. He was
Funk, Walther morally guilty, there is no
124 doubt about that. I should have deposit in the Reichsbank. smashed Jewish property." (12/15 released in 1957
Minister of Economics Funk told subordinates not to /45)....Funk was often seen crying because of poor
listened to my wife at the end.
ask questions about the during the presentation of health. He died in
She said we'd be better off
shipments. He either knew prosecution evidence and needed 1959.
dropping the whole minister
or should have known the sleeping pills at night.
business and moving into a
source of the gold received.
three-bedroom flat." (7/8/46)
"I joined the Party precisely Goering surrendered to American
because it was revolutionary, officers. The officers offered
As Director of the Four Year
not because of the ideological Goering drinks and sang songs Goering committed
Plan, Goering bore
stuff." (12/11/45)...."The with him, but the next day were suicide on the day
responsibility for the
whole conspiracy idea is reprimanded by an outraged before his scheduled
elimination of Jews from
cockeyed. We had orders to Dwight Eisenhower...Goering was hanging by taking a
Goering, obey the head of state. We
political life and for the
the most popular prisoner with the cyanide pill that was
Hermann destruction and takeover of
weren't a band of criminals American guards because he smuggled into his
Reichsmarschall and Jewish businesses and
meeting in the woods in the seemed to take an interest in their cell. Goering wrote in
Luftwaffe (Air Force) 138 dead of night to plan mass property....He was quoted as
lives....He seemed to wield a great his suicide note, "I
Chief; President of saying, "I wish you had killed
murders...The four real deal of influence with the other would have no
Reichstag; Director of 200 Jews and not destroyed
conspirators are missing: The defendants, and prison objection to getting
"Four Year Plan" such valuable property"...He
Fuhrer, Himmler, Bormann, administrators sought to isolate shot," but he thought
looted art treasures from
and Goebbels." him as much as possible....Goering hanging was
occupied territories and
(1/5/46)..."This is a political said, "We don't have much to say inappropriate for a
arranged for use of slave
trial by the victors and it will about our fate. The forces of man of his position.
labor....
be a good thing when Germany history and politics and economics
realizes that..." (6/13/46) are just to big to steer." (3/9/46)
"It is just incomprehensible Jackson called Hess "the During his detention following his
Hess was sentenced to
how those things [atrocities] engineer tending to the Party failed putsch, Hitler dictated Mein
life in prison. He
came about...Every genius has machinery." He maintained Kampf to Hess...Hess mysteriously
remained--lost in his
the demon in him. You can't the organization as a ready flew to England in 1941 in an
Hess, Rudolf blame him [Hitler]--it is just in and loyal instrument of attempt to end the war on his own
own mental fog-- in
Deputy to the Fuhrer 120 him...It is all very tragic. But power. He signed decrees terms. He stayed there until the
Spandau prison (for
and Nazi Party Leader many years as its only
at least I have the satisfaction persecuting Jews and was a war ended....Hess suffered from
prisoner) until he
of knowing that I tried to do willing participant in paranoid delusions, apathy,
committed suicide in
something to end the war." aggression against Austria, amnesia, and was diagnosed as
1987 at age 93.
(12/16/45) Czechoslavakia, and Poland. having a "hysterical personality."
Jodl gave orders for the
"The indictment knocked me on
German army's campaign Jodl signed Germany's
the head. First of all, I hand no Jodl was hanged in
against Holland, Belgium, unconditional surrender on May 7,
idea at all about 90 per cent of Nuremberg on Oct. 16,
Norway, and Poland. He also 1945, ending the war in
the accusations in it. The 1946. Critics have
Jodl, Alfred planned attacks against Europe....He strongly disagreed
crimes are horrible beyond called Jodl's death
Chief of Operations for Greece and with many of Hitler's harsh orders:
127 belief, if they are true. Yugoslavia....Jodl was "The order to kill the escaped
sentence harsh in
the German High Secondly, I don't see how they relation to the
Command quoted as saying, "Terror British fliers--there was absolutely
can fail to recognize a soldier's sentences received by
attacks against English no justification for that. From then
obligation to obey orders. other German officers
centers of population ...will on, I knew what kind of a man
That's the code I've live by all of similar rank.
paralyze the will of the Hitler was." (4/6/46)
my life." (11/1/45)
people to resist."
Kaltenbrunner was described as "a
Kaltenbrunner and RSHA
Nazi out of central casting:"
"When I saw the newspaper bear responsibity for "The
six-foot-six, a huge neck, cruel
Kaltenbrunner, headline 'GAS CHAMBER Final Solution" to the Jewish
mouth, and a scar across his left
Ernst EXPERT CAPTURED' and an question--and the 6 million
cheek...He was shunned by most of
Chief of RSHA (an American lieutenant explained jews killed by
the other defendants...His lawyer
organization which it to me, I was pale in Einsatzgruppen (2 million) Kaltenbrunner was
tried to portray him as a stooge for
includes offices of the 113 amazement. How can they say and in concentration camps Himmler, rather than his right-hand
hanged on Oct. 16,
Gestapo, the SD, and such things about me?" (4 million). Kaltenbrunner 1946 in Nuremberg.
man....Kaltenbrunner believed
the Criminal Police) (4/11/46)..."I have only done ordered prisoners in Dachau
fertile German women had a duty
and Chief of Security my duty as an intelligence and other camps liquidated
to produce babies, and if their
Police organ, and I refuse to serve as just before the camps would
husbands couldn't get them
an ersatz for Himmler." have been liberated by
pregnant, other men ought to be
Allies.
given the job.
"We all believed so much in Keitel signed orders Keitel's sons were killed in the
him [Hitler]--and we stand to authorizing the killing of German attack on the Soviet Union Keitel was one of ten
Keitel, Wilhelm take all the blame--and the captured commandos and that Keitel helped execute...Keitel, defendants hanged in
Chief of Staff of the reprisals against the families on Hitler's orders, sent two the Palace of Justice
129 shame! He gave us the orders. of Allied volunteers...He generals to Rommel (who had in the early morning
German High He kept saying that it was all
Command his responsibility." 912/25 drafted the "Night and Fog" supported attempts to assassinate hours of October 16,
/45)..."I will suffer more agony decree that authorized the Hitler) offering him the the choice 1946.
demolition of a synagogue in
the Jewish menace as an
Nuremberg and began to call
historical problem."
for annihilation of the Jewish
(11/14/45)
race.