INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITIES

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

INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITIES

SPECIALISTS IN DEPRAVITY GOERING NEXT TO FUHRER NUREMBERG. July 26. Continuing his summing up, Mr Justice Jackson said that Goering. the semi-militarist and semi-gangstei-, stuck his pudgy finger into every pie, and next to .Hitler was tied actively to all the defendants in a common effort. Hess, the zealot, was the engineer tending the party’s machinery; Ribbentrop, the salesman of deception, was detailed to pour wine on troubled waters and suspicion by preaching a gospel of limited peaceful intentions: Keitel, the weak and willing tool, delivered the armed forces as. an instrument for aggression to the party; Kaitenbrunner, the grand inquisitor, stifled the opposition and buttressed the Nazis’ power on a foundation of guiltless corpses; Rosenberg, the intel-

lectual high priest of the master race, provided a doctrine of hate which gave impetus to the annihilation of Jewry; fanatic Frank solidified Nazi control by establishing authority without law when he governed Poland: Frick, the ruthless, organised police agencies to see the Nazis stayed in power. Ghoulish Funk Mr Justice Jackson said Funk accelerated the pace of rearmament, and banked for the S.S. the gold fillings of victims—probably the most ghoulish collateral banking in history. Schacht was the facade of starched respectability, who early provided window dressing and bait for the hesitant, and later by his wizardry enabled Hitler to finance his colossal rearmament programme secretly. Doenitz promoted the success of Nazi aggressions by instructing submarine killers to conduct sea warfare with jungle ferocity; Raeder, as a political admiral, stealthily built up the German Navy in defiance of the Versailles Treaty, and largely planned its aggressions. Vdn Schirach, the poisoner of a generation, initiated the Nazi Youth doctrine and trained them for the Wehrmacht and the S.S. service. Men Driven Into Slavery Sauckel, the greatest and cruellest slaver since the Pharaohs, produced desperately-needed man-power by driving foreigners into bondage on a scale unknown even in Egypt’s ancient tyranny. Jodi betrayed military traditions and led the Wehrmacht;in violating its own code of military honour to carry out the Nazis’ policies and barbarous aims. Von Papen, the pious agent of an infidel regime, held the stirrup while Hitler vaulted into the saddle, and served Nazi objectives abroad by diplomatic cunning. Austria’s Fate

Seyss-Inquart, the spearhead of the Austrian Fifth Column, presented his country to Hitler and terrorised, oppressed, and pillaged the Netherlands for the German juggernaut. Von Neurath, the old-school diplomat, cast the pearls of his experience before the Nazis and soothed prospective victims’ fears, Speer joining in planning and executing the programme to dragoon war prisoners and foreigners into war industries. Fritsche, by manipulating the truth, public opinion into frenzied support for the Nazis, and anaesthetised the people’s independent judgment. “ Bormann, who has not accepted our invitation to this reunion, sat at the throttle of the party’s vast and powerful engine, guiding it in the ruthless execution of Nazi policies from scourging Christian churches to lynching airmen.”