The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-12-12
DEALING WITH NAH TRIALS
By SENATOR CLAUDE PEPPER

The hand OF justice IS at last
clutching at the threats Of the
principal German Nazi GRIM
inals. The past few days here in
Nurnberg twenty of these evil
men who made war upon man
kind and the world under the in
famous banner of Nazism have
been on trial in this city of their
ancient arrogance and triumph.
I have been very pleased to
find engaged in this important
work of bringing to the bar of
justice these criminals some
friends from Florida, Captain
William Lines, of Quincy, Florida,
was one of the principal prosecu-
ting attorneys at the Dachau tri-
ais. now find that Miss GlietZ,
of St. Petersburg, and Miss Eve
Ign Tucker, of Miami, Florida,
are in responsible positions on
Justice Jackson's staff here in
Nurnberg. Miss Tucker is writing
up this letter to you fellow FlOTi-
dians for me now.
GOering, hess, Rlbbentrop-
most of these twenty desperate
men, whom for days l have seen
in the prisoners dock-I saw in
1888 in this same city of Nurnberg,
walked like little Gods amongst
their soulless but subservient fell
low gangSterS. Today, in their
hearts they must know that they
are doomed men, for their crimes
are not only in the history of the
last decade but with typical Ge-
man thoroughness have been writ
ten into their own voluminous re-
cords, and even in many cases
recorded in talking pictures.
There are three men not indict-
ed whose names are formost in
evey charge of Nazi ciminality-
Hitler, Himmler and Goebbels.
For Hitler spawned this evil web
which first strangled Germany
and then threatened the world.
He was the God of this hieracy of
German devils who wanted to
make a Nazi He'll on Earth. He
fathered every perfidious thought
which became Nazi policy and
program. He drew to him all those
hard and heartleSS men who with
him, have brought to mankind
and to the earth more sorrow,
death and devastation than any
group of men IN history. Himmler
perSonified the degeneracy and
degradation Of the whole system,
and Goebbels was the pro-
phet of their distorted doctrines.
But Himmler and Goebbels are
dead in manlesS graves, and Hit
Ter is either dead or burrowing
like a mole underground.
But their in the accused's box,
sit the other leaders of the gang:
Goering, Hitler's right-hand man
and designated successor, who
was party to nearly every Nazi
crime. Hess, first Hitler's Secre-
tay and then Deputy Leader of the
Nazi Party, who, until early in
1871, was Hitler's shadow and
spokesman RibbentrOp, who as
Foreign Minister, was Hitler's
supercilious and INSCRIPTIONS ac-
complete in throwing the world
into the agony of war for Nazi
domination. Keitel, the cold Prus-
sian militarist, who under Hitler
organized and ordered the death
and devastation which German
Armed Forces-from the first of
September, 1899 until the eighth
of May, 1945-poured out upon
the world.
And then there is Rosenberg,
whose devilish mind was the phi
losopher and cunning creator OF
Nazi doctrines and who later loot
ed the art treasure of Europe and
perpetrated some of the principal
outages of NaZi occupation.
Frank, whose cynical face marks
him the typical gangster, the legal
mouthpiece of the gang who des-I
troyeds every vestige OF law
and Justice and set an example OF
butchery and barbarism as Gov
ernor General of occupied Po-
land. Frick, who was Minister OF
the Interior and cruel administra-
tor of many occupied areas. Sauc-
kel. who organized and carried
out the enslavement and execu-
ton in Germany of millions OF
forced workers from occupied
countries. Speer, who provided
the ans and munitions with which
their criminal aggression was
hurled against the world Funk,
who managed the German econo-
my and modified the whole
might of the German nation and
people behind the NaZi war
Schacht, head of the highest Ger
man central bank. who lent to the
Nazis his perverse financial wiz
srdry to build up their power to
make war at the expense Of other
nations-though he now proposes
to scorn his former cOnfederates-
Won Pspen. who as Hitler's Am
basador, by intrigue, correction and
corruption spread the Man web
from one Europena Capital to an
other.