The Nuremberg Trials: The Nazis Brought to Justice by Alexander MacDonald

Author:Alexander MacDonald
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Arcturus
Published: 2015-09-08T07:00:00+00:00

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The second day went no better. When Jackson produced a document referring to ‘preparation for liberation of the Rhine’ nine months earlier than Göring had claimed, Göring said the document had been mistranslated. It read ‘preparation for the clearing of the Rhine’ – the river, not the Rhineland – and referred only to clearing the Rhine of civilian traffic in the event of war. Nevertheless, Jackson insisted, plans for the armed occupation of the Rhineland were kept secret.

‘I do not think I can recall reading beforehand the publication of the mobilization preparations of the United States,’ Göring jibbed.

Jackson complained of Göring’s ‘arrogant and contemptuous attitude toward the tribunal which is giving him the trial which he never gave a living soul’.

Lawrence ruled that Göring’s remark about the mobilization of the United States was irrelevant, but gave Jackson little more assistance and Göring continued to run rings around him.

Jackson struck back with a litany of crude anti-Semitic remarks reputedly made by Göring that dented his image as a suave and sophisticated man. And documents showing Göring’s complicity in the Holocaust could not be refuted no matter how much Göring cavilled about mistranslations.

Göring had no pat answers when the records of his stolen art treasures were introduced – or when details of the stripping of Russian resources were presented. But then Jackson faltered. He turned his attention to the comparatively trivial matter of the destruction of the American ambassador’s house in Warsaw. Seeking to prove that it had been deliberately targeted by the Luftwaffe, he produced what he said were aerial photographs. Göring had been a pilot in the First World War and knew a great deal about aerial photography. The picture, he demonstrated, had been taken from the top of a church steeple. On the back there was no date or departmental stamp. Then he said, almost contemptuously: ‘However, let us assume that they were taken by the Luftwaffe, so that further questions will be facilitated.’

Jackson was floored.

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