MANKIND CALLS CRIMINALS TO ACCOUNT

Chronicle (Levin), 30 July 1946, Page 5

MANKIND CALLS CRIMINALS TO ACCOUNT

Press Assn.

Russian Prosecutor's Address To Nuremberg Tribunal

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Received Tuesday, 11.20 a.m. NUREMBURG, July 29. The Russian Prosecutor, M. Rudenko, began his 30,000-word speech before the War Crimes .Tribunal at Nuremburg thisi afterf nocn. He' said that nations 'f oi" the first .time were trying thosh - who had inundated vast expanses of the , earth with blood, annihiiated mu lions of innocent persons, including ' aged people and also women, and ! children, with their system of tortures, destroyed cultural treasures and with a wild claim to mastery, of the world had hurled it into an abyss of unheard of calamities. "Mankind calls these criminals to : account," M. Rudenko continued. "Not a single deed of which the defendants are accused has been left without verification." j M. Rudenko referred scornfully to the "hand of wild criminals,

twho over many years committed I monstrous crimes. All that the j defendants could say in their i defence was that they themselves i did not commiU the crimes with | their own hands." Their hench1 men did the difty work V while, ijthe I defendants had- only to give.' -the orders, which were incontestably I obeyed. I "If the subordinates of Kaltenbrunner exterminated people in murder vans, these vans were built at Daimlerbenz Works, and if , Hoess, commandant of the Ausch1witz camp, pulled out gold teeth from the dead, the^might say that 1 Funk opened special safes in the Reich Bank in which to keep them. Between the defendants and the direct perpetrators of the murder I and torture there. had been only the difference of rank and scope of action."