NEVER BEFORE WITNESSED SUCH THINGS

Chronicle (Levin), 27 July 1946, Page 5

NEVER BEFORE WITNESSED SUCH THINGS

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Received Saturday, 1.4 a.m. NtJRBiVi-B£iR,G, j'ui'y 26. "This mad aii'd mei'arichb'iy record j will live as the historical text of the jtwentieth century's shame and depravity, ' ' said justic'6 JhcksOii, fifiaily addressing the War Crimes Tribunal. fie said no h'alf-'c'entury khd witiiess'eu such slaughter, crueities, inhumamties, Wholesald depbrt'ation's, 'slavei-y and an fiihila'tions ot' ihiiiofi'tieS, hs the last 40 •yea'rs. "if we canfto't eliinifia'te tke causes and p'reven't a rep'etition df these balbaric event's, the tweh'tieth 'c'efitliry may yet succe'ea an brmgin'g civiima't'roii'k doom." > The future would neVer he a'hle to say the Hazis had not been allowed t'o say what they could in their TavoUr but ' their testimony had hel'ped to write their own condemnation. The Coui't nad heard eyidence of criminals ahd heard the defendants' flimsy excuses and paltry evasionk. JUstice Jackson, after descrihing how the Nazis seized power and how they had hlaintained it, said the result was the renlOval of peacedbie means to resist a change of government. The Nazis, from the momefit they had seized power, set about feVerishly and stealthily arming for war in defiance Ox the Versailies Treaty. Deaiing with the Nazis' warfare in disregard of international law, Justice Jackson said the Teutonic fury against the Soviet people and prisoners knew nb bounds. It also established or ad hiitted that other violations of the Hague and Geneva 'conventions had oc curred, such as the murder of Allied aitmeh, mistreatment of western war prisoners and the forcing of French war prisoners to do Gerrhafi war work. Justice Jackson said the Nazi leaders waged against the Jews the most far fiung and most terfible ra'cikl persecution of all tinle. One Yvitness Who was in charge of the exterlhination programme, had estimated that 6,000,000 Jews were killed, whereof 4,000, ouu were killed ili ifistitutions and 2,000,00u by the pecurity Police Who pursued thein to ghettos and to their homes and slaughtered them. "The programme was so thorough and uncompromisihg that European Jews as a race, no longer exist, thiis fulfilling Hitler's diabolical prophesy at the beginning of the war, ' ' he added. The chief instrument in the programme Was the cohcentration camp » which Goering sired ahd Which Frick and K'altehhrunher nurture'd under overall authority. Goering 's testiinony was a strange mixture of Wind and wisdom which at hest integrated the whole catalogue of Nazi oppression and terrorism within Germahy with the crime of war.