Evening star., 1945-11-21
Partial Text Of Jockson's War Trial Address
Tells Nuremberg Tribunal kozs' Own Records Will Show
They Planned Aggressive War Ensove Nations Of Europe


military tribunal at Nuremberg:
The privilege Of opening the first trial
in history for crimes against the peace
Of the world imposes grave responsible
ity. The wrongs which we seek to con-
denim and punish have been so calcu-
lated, so malignant and so devastating
that civilization cannot tolerate their
being ignored because it cannot survive
their being repeated. That four great
nations, flushed with victory and stung
with injury, stay the hand OF vengeance
and voluntarily submit their captive
enemies to the Judgment of the law Is
one OF the most magnificent tributes
that power ever has paid to reason. :.
In the prisoners dock sit 20-odd
broken men. Reproached by the humil-
iation Of those they have led almost
as bitterly as by the desolation Of those
they have attacked, their personal
capacity for evil is forever past. 1t Is
hard now to perceive in these miserable
men as captives the power by which as
Nazi leaders they once dominated much
of the world and terrified most of it.
Merely as individuals, their fate Is Of
little consequence to the world. =
Represent Sinister Influences.
What makes this inquest significant
Is that these prisoners represent sinister
influences that will lurk in the world
long after their bodies have returned to
dust. They are living symbols Of racial
hatreds, of terrorism and violence, and
of the arrogance and cruelty of power.
They are symbols of fierce nationalisms
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making which have embroiled Europe
generation after generation, crushing its
manhood, destroying its homes, and
impoverishing its life. -.
The catalogue of crimes will omit
nothing that could be conceived by a
pathological pride, cruelty and lust for
power. These men created in Germany,
under the "Fuehrerprinzip," national
socialist despotism equaled only by the
dynasties Of the ancient East. They took
from the German people all those dig
mites and freedoms that we hold natural
and inalienable rights in every human
being. The people were compensated by
inflaming and gratifying hatreds to-
wards those who were marked as
"scapegoats"
Against their opponents, including
Jews, Catholics and free labor, the Nazis
directed such campaign of arrogance,
brutality, and humiliation as the world
has not witnessed since the pre-Chris-
tian ages. They excited the German
ambition to be master race" which,
of course, implies serfdom for others.
They led their people on a mad gamble
for domination. They diverted social
energies and resources to the creation of
what they thought to be an invincible
war machine.
Enslaved Millions.
They overran their neighbors. To
sustain the master race" In its war
making. they enslaved millions Of hui
man beings and brought them into Ger
many, where these hapless creatures
now wander as displaced persons" At
length bestiality and bad faith reached
such excess that they aroused the sleep
ing strength of imperiled civilization.
Its united efforts have ground the Ger
man war machine to fragments. But
the struggle has left Europe liberated.
yet PROSTATE land, where demoralized
society struggles to survive. These are
the fruits of the sinister forces that sit
with these defendants in the prisoners
dock. -.
Unfortunately, the nature of these
crimes is such that both prosecution
and judgment must be by victor ma
tions over vanquished foes. The world
wide scope of the aggressions carried
out by these men has left but few real
neutrals. Either the victors must Judge
the vanquished or we must leave the
defeated to judge themselves After the
hrst World War, we learned the futility
Of the latter course.
II these defendants should succeed,
for any reason, in escaping the condem-
nation Of this tribunal, or if they OBJ
struct or abort this trial, those who
are American-held prisoners will be de-
hvered up to our continental Allies.
for these defendants, however, we
have set up an international tribunal
and have undertaken the burden of par
ticipating in complicated effort to give
them fair and dispassionate hear
lngs. -.
Proof Is in Records.
We will not ask you to convict these
men on the testimony of their foes.
There is no count of the indictment
that cannot be proved by books and
records. The Germans were always
meticulous record keepers, and these
defendants had their share of the Teu-
tonic passion for thoroughness in put
ting things on paper. Nor were they
without vanity. They arranged fire.
quently to be photographed in action.
We will show you their own films You
will see their own conduct and hear
their own voices as these defendants
re-enact for you, from the screen, some
Of the events in the course Of the con-
spiracy.
We would also make clear that we
have no purpose to incriminate the
whole German people. We know that
the Nazi party was not put in power by
a majority of the German vote. We
know it came to power by an evil al
lance between the most extreme of the
Nazi revolutionists, the most unre-
strained of the German reactionaries,
and the most aggressive of the German
nilitarists. >.
The recoil of the Nazi aggression
has left Germany in ruins. The Nazi
readiness to pledge the German word
without hesitation and to break it
without shame has fastened upon Ger
AldA oAPioLidSy IepuedtioA 1oi uu-
plicity that will handicap 1t for years.
Nazi arrogance has made the boast
Of the master race" taunt that will
be thrown at Germans the world over
for generations. The Nazi nightmare
has given the German name new
and sinister significance throughout the
world which will retard Germany a
century. The German, no less than
the non German world, has accounts
to settle with these defendants. -.
Defendants Planned War.
In general our case will disclose these
defendants all uniting at Some time