GERMAN GENERAL STAFF

Chronicle (Levin), 31 August 1946, Page 5

GERMAN GENERAL STAFF

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Prosecutor's Denouncement W0RSH1PPED ARMED MIGHT

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Received Saturday, 10.15 a.m. NUREMBERG, Aug. 30. The former- supreme commander. of the German armies, Wilhelm Keitel, and the former German Army Chief of Staff, Alfred Jodl, sat glumly in the dock before the War Crimes Tribunal to-day, and listened to the United States prosecutor attack their defence that they were only . the puppets of Hitler. Colonel Telford denounced the German General Staff as worshippers of armed might and ambitious to extend the hegemony of Germany. The defence had pointed out the differences between the generals and Hitler, but the generals were Nazis and found themselves sufficiently in agreement to Diing the Third Reich very close to impossing its evil theories over the whole world. Colonel Telford said that what was at stake was not the lives of ihe particular militarists, but the future influence of the German General Staff within Germany, and consequently on the lives of ail the peoples of Germany. The generals had taken the first steps for a revival of militarism in the Nurernberg courtroom bv .attempting to re-establish the faith of the Germans in their military prowess and disassociating themselves from the atrocities which they in fact committed in the name of the Third Reich. Colonel Telford said: "We cannot here 'remake history, but we can see it is written true so they can see their lives stamped for,vhat they are." The French and Russian prosecutors insisted on the guilt of the Nazi organisations. M. _ Rudenko described the defence evidence as "lies, cynical and blasphemous lies."