The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-30
Defendants
 SeeNoHope OfAcquittoI
Tribunal Finds Nozi Germany Guilty of Wor

Nuremberg, Sept. 3G-UP)-Tht Internationa: War Crimes TIleuna today pronounced Nazi Germany guilty 0i ruthless, aggressive wal against Il countries and stripped the q Nag, defendants of their last hopes for acquittal.
 The Tribunal declared the Ger man High Commanu, Reich caoine: and brown -Shirted s. A. storm troopers innocent of criminality as organizations. It found the GeS- tapo, the s. s. and it's s. D. security police component, and parts of the Nazi leadership corps to be crimi- nal groups.
 Justices of Russia, France, the United Staes and Britain caStigat- ed the Nazi system in relentless terms. It was clear none of the 2l men in the dock would escape death or a prison term.
 Members Not to Escape
 Some may be found innocent on part of the four charges against them. A few probably will escape the death penalty when individual sentences are announced tomorrow. The Tribunals relentless catalogue of Nazi crimes which racked Europe made clear that even the lucky ones faced prison terms.
 The Tribunal made it evident that many members of the three ac- quilted organizations must be pun iShed as individuals.
 In scathing terms it denounced members of the German High Com mand as ruthless military caste responsible for untold suffering. Yet it found it could not convict the high command and general staff as such within the Tribunals charter.
 They have been a disgrace to the honorable profession of arms" it said.
 Goering, Hess Laugh
 The 21 grey and broken defend- ants who one swaggered across Europe behind Adolf Hitler sat in- tently as the justices droned through the 250-page judgment, estimated to run 75O0O words. Some were extremely tense, others glum. Once Hermann Goering and Rudolf Hess laughed. But only for a sec- ond.
 They heard the justices reading in relays pronounced Nazism a criminal system and condemn it's leadership for conspiracy, crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
 Nazism was convicted of violating the Kellogg -Briand Pact outlaWing war, which Germany signed, by planned aggression starting with Czechoslovakia. The names Aus tr1a, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Nor way, Denmark, Belgium, the Meth erlands, Luxembourg, Yugoslavia, Greece and Russia recalled a parade of crimes which the Tribunal said was on a scale unparalleled in the history of war
 The Tribunal without reservation threw out defendants claims that they were only tools of Hitler, carrying out orders. Kt ruled that by following willingly his plan of aggression, they accepted responsi- U1Aty LOT LIlelr OeeQS.
 BOrmann Never Caught
 Martin Bormann, the 22d defend ant, never has been caught and was being judged in absentia. He probably died from Russian shell in Berlin.
 Reading of the massive document was begun at 10 A. M. 6 A. M, EST) by Chief Justice Sir Godfrey Lawrence of Britain. After one hour and 26 minutes, he called brief recess.
 The Reich cabinet, the court ruled, never really acted as group a1ter l937 The judgment said it's members could conveniently be tried on other grounds without charging the cabinet itself with criminality.
 The q defendants listened i'm paSslvely while the relentless voices o1 Lawrence and his alternate, Sir Norman Birkett, catalogued the crimes of NaZiSm. Defendants and spectators quickly sensed the Tri- bunaPS stern mood.
 Rise of NaZism Reviewed
 Lawrence began reading in a low conversational tone, but grew loud- CT as he described the development of National Socialism from a tiny group in 1920 to force which ter ror1zed Europe and threatened the world.
 Names of the individuals rang out from time to time in the read ing. All listened intently from the prisoners dock where they have sat since last November.
 Hermann Goering rested his head. hand and elbow on the edge of the dock Joachim von Ribbentrop oc- caslonally ran a nervous tongue over his lips. Alfred Rosenberg leaned forward in his front row seat. All looked old and strained.
 Rudolf Hess played with papers in his lap and sometimes scribbled notes. His eyes were lost in deep cavernS under his brows. He ignored the earphones, although he probab-