Nuremberg Criminal Trials

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26216, 29 July 1946, Page 5

Nuremberg Criminal Trials

DRAMATIC ATMOSPHERE Defendants Strained and Anxious (Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, July 26. “ Perhaps for the first time in eight months, the Nuremberg Trial to-day became charged with the drama of a great criminal trial,” says the Nuremberg correspondent of The Times. / We suddenly saw that the men in the dock were on trial for their lives, and in their grey, strained faces was the knowledge of this fact.

“ Gone was the air of academic inquiry into which th,e court had often been lulled by the sweeping breadth of the prosecution’s horizons, gone the groping futility of weeks of philosophical argument and subtle evasion by the defence counsel.

“The prisoners only once stirred from their sombre gravity, as they listened to a recapitulation of crime unequalled in history. Hermann Goering towards the end of the day whipped off the dark glasses he had worn as a protection against the glare of the floodlights and savagely gestured his resentment at Sir Hartley Shawross’s charge that he had lied regarding his complicity in the murder of 50 Royal Air Force officers at Stalag Luft III.”