Evening star., 1946-07-26
Jackson Brands
u Nazis With
Guilt
Calls for Conviction
InOpenine Summation
Of Nuremberg Trials
fTert OF Jackson charge on
Page A-3.)
BY the Associated Press


NUREMBERG, Germany, July
26.-Justice Robert H. Jackson
today demanded on behalf of
the United States that all %
Nazi leaders on trial on war
crimes charges before the Inter
national Military Tribunal be
convicted as "conspirators" to
wage aggressive war.
Opening the prosecutions summa-
ton for the Allied Nations against
Hermann Goering and his 81 CO.
defendants after eight months OF
testimony and debate, Justice Jack
son declared
Adolf Hitlers acts are their acts.
His guilt is the guilt of the whole
dock and every man in it."
Briton Charges IL Million Murders
Justice Jackson was followed by
the chief British prosecutor. Sir
Hartley w. Shawcross, who declared
the prisoners were guilty of "12,-
ouU,uUU muTQerS.
He declared they participated In
and directed the cold, calculated,
deliberate attempt to destroy ma
tions and races, to disentegrate the
traditions, the institutions and the
very existence of free and ancient
states through murder conducted
like some mass production industry
in the gas chambers and the ovens
OF death camps.
For the first time in several
months, there hardly was an empty
seat in the courtroom.
Rudolf Hess, Bormann Missing.
Rudolf Hess. the third ranking
German before he parachuted into
Scotland and started his incredible
insanity hoax, was the only de-
fendant missing beside Martin Bor-
mann, tried in absentia but often
termed dead
Once when Justice Jackson was re-
lating how the German Army, NAVY
and Air Force grew. paunchy Her
mann Goering and Grand Admiral
Erich Raeder started heated areu-
ment that military police had to
break up.
All defendants except Ernst Kali
tenbrunner. once head of the secret
police, seemed to enjoy Justice Jack
sons biting remarks Even he
grinned widely when the American
described his defense as that of 2
security chief who was of the i'm
preston that the policing functions
of his Gestape- SIS were somewhat
on the order of directing traffic"
Papen Shakes Head Sadly.
Franz Won Papen, the willy ole
diplomatic Schemer. shook his heac
sadly when Justice jackson sale
he was one of the men who made
Hitler believe in the "indecisior
and timidity of democratic people.
Papen had been chancellor before
Hitler took power. He listened in.
tently without earphones.
Julius Streicher. the anti-Semitit
publisher, paid little attention. Ar.
thur Seyss-Inquart. Hitlers rulel
in Holland and earlier in Austria
appeared to doze several times.
Most defendants appeared to en-.
JOY Justice Jacksons remarks abou,
the fortunes in art treasures which
Goering looted. The former Reichs.
marshal just shook his head as il
he were man amazed.
Other defendants, whose lives
were in the balance, were former
Foreign Minister Joachim Won Rib.
nentrop Field Marshal Wilhelm
keitel, Col. Gen. alfred Jodl. Crane
Admiral Karl Ooenitz, Hjalmal
Schacht, former economies minister
and Reichsbank president: Walter
Funk, Schachts successor; Alfred
Rosenberg. Nazi party philosopher
Hans Frank. occupation governor OF
Poland; Wilhelm Frick, minister Of
the interior; Constantin Won Neu.
rath, former protector of Bohemia
and Moravia: SIS Gen. Fritz Sauck.