The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-18

bSau ana htgh command of the German armed forces, as well as the Gestapo and the SS.
 Conviction of the 24 leaders and a decision that the indicted Nazi organizations were criminal in nature would doom thousands of Nad small fry.
 BOrmann At Large
 All except one of the 24 defend- ants were held near Nuremberg. Martin BorInann, Hitler's deputy, was at large but was indicted,
 The other 23 are expected to be given about a month to prepare their cases. Then they will go on trial before a four-power tribunal of which Francis Riddle, former attor- ney general, is the U. S. member. Robert H. Jackson, Supreme Court Justice and also former attorney general, is the prosecutor for the U. s. and signed the indictment for this country.
 The indictment traced the history of the "Master Race" from the orig in of the Nazl party in 1919 to Its doom last June. It was story of atrocities, prosecutions and slavery, plunder and devastation unmatched in history.
 Many of the details have been known but the indictment was the first oficial attempt to set down the whole story,
 Each defendant was charged with responsibility for plotting and help ing to execute seven wars of ag- Rression now known as World War II. They face almost certain execu- ton.
 Adolf Hitler, believed dead but whose body has not been found, and two other top Nazis - Paul Josef Goebbels and Henrich Himmler, who committed suicide-were miss ing from the list. The scope of the crimes was only indicated in the indictment for ex. ample, 1t listed only samples or the number of murders known to have been committed at specified places. Those totaled 9,38l 986-for which each of the criminals must atone-and did not include numer- ous references in the indictment to the hundreds" "thousands', and tens of thousands" of others mur- dered. Those were in addition to millions of battle casualties. The reat majority of the civilian exterm- nations occurred in Eastern Eu- rope.
 in one concentration camp - Auschwitz, Poland - 100000 per- sons were "exterminated," the in- dictment said.
 Devastation Excluded
 France was plundered of approxi- mately a trillion francs ($2O0 ,000,-. 100000 in pre-war value) worth ot materials, equipment, produce and money-not counting devastation.
 The material loss in Soviet Russia which bore the brunt of Nazi say. agery-was placed at 679,000,OOO,OVO rubles (about $339,500 COG, ,000).
 NaA prosecutions left 'only rem- nants" of Europe's Jewish popula- ton. Of the 9,6o0,000 Jews under Nazl domination, 1t Is conservative ly estimated" that 5,700,000 have disappeared.
 Nearly iO0,000000 persons were deported from their homelands by the NaziS for forced labor.
 The methods of torture ranged from poison gas chambers ana wagons, some of which broke down" from overwork, to the iron helmet" a medieval torture instru.. ment. Other methods included freezing to death in icy water, hang ing, shooting, starvation, kickings, beatings, the use of hot irons, pull ing out of finger nails, deliberate exposure of concentration camp vic- tims to typhus and other deadly dis eases, disembowelling, sterilization of women. and the use of victims as guinea pigs in experimental opera tions.
 The main fact that stands out in the indictment was that the Jews and Russia bore the hrunt. Of the O.38i ,0e6 specific caSee of murder, nearly 5000, 900 occurred in Russian territory.
 Hitler planned to "erase from the face of the earth" Russia's second city--Leningrad He was not inter- ested "in preserving even a part Of the population of this large city" Similar plans were indicated for other Russian cities.
 The Nazis also tried to "erase" the Jewish race in Europe. Defendant Robert Ley, Nazl labor leader was quoted As having said:
 "rhe second German secret wea- pon Is anti-Semitism, because if 1t is consistently pursued by Germany, 1t will become Q universal problem which all nations will be forced to consider"
 His anti-semit!c colleague Julius Streicher contended:
 "The sun will not shine on the nations of the earth until the last Jew is dead"
 Hess A Defendant
 Tn addition to GoerinG, Nazi Air Marshal who established the first concentration camps as early as 1888; Hess, who as Hitler's deputy flew to Britain in search of Q "phoney" peace, and Ribnentrop, former champagne salesman turAed diplomat, the defendants Included: Ernst Kaltenbruner, Austrian ter- orist and SS leader; Alfred Rosen- berg, Nazi editor and Jew batter; Hans Prank, governor general Of Poland; Bormann. successor to Hess; Wilhelm Prick, interior min- ister and director of lands seized by | the Nazis; Ley, labor leader: Fritz Sauckel, head of the slave labor or- ganization; Albert speer. another | in the slave labor program; Wal | ther Funk, minister of economies; Hjalmar Schacht, flnancler; Franz von Papen, diplomat; Gustav Krupp | Won Neurath, former foreign min- ibVSTe 5aiuUT VOU 6CnTacn, youLH | leader; Arthur Seyss-1nquart, Aus trian "quisling"; Streicher: Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the high command; Col. Gen. AL