The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-26

said, was loaded with "lies, double talk, fantastic explanations, absurd professions, f1imsy excuses and pal try evasions.
 "The fact is that the Nazi habit of economizing in the use of truth pulls the foundation out from under their own defenses," Jackson as- serted. Lying has always been a highly approved Nazi technique.
 Continue Habits in Dock
 When for years they have decid- ed the world, and masked falsehood with plausibilities. can anyone be surprised that they continue the habits of iifttime in this dock?"
 Jackson declared that the Nazis used the deceiving background of their testimony to ask the tribunal to clear them of planning, execut- ing or conspiring to commit the long list of crimes with which they are charged.
 "The time has come for final Judgment and if the case I present seems hard and uncompromising, :" he added, it is because the evi- dence makes it so
 If you were to say of these men that they are not guilty, it would be as true to say there has been no war, there are no slain, there has been no crime
 Defendants Given Chances
 Jackson expressed belief that the defendants had been given ade- quate opportunity to state their cases.
 They have been given the kind Of a trial which they, in the days of their pomp and power, never gave to any man." he said.
 Jackson noted wryly that the de- fendants had been unanimous ir shifting the blame to Hitler, Hein- rich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels. ano Martin Bormann-all dead or miss ing.
 No matter how hard We have pressed the defendants on the stand, Jackson declared, "they have never pointed a finger at z living man as guilty.
 Irony in Statement It IS temptation to ponder the wondrous workings of a fate which has left only the guilty dead anc only the innocent alive. It is al. most too remarkable.
 Jackson said he would not dis. pute the defendants premise tha Hitler was the chief Nazi villain lie characterized the Fuehrer as 6 mad Messiah who started tht war without cause and continued il without reason. But, he added. tht Nazls on trial were members 0. Hitler's great conspirital brother. hooo and must pay for theil crimes "one by one
 These men destroyed free gov. efnment in Germany and now pleae to be excused from responsibility because they became slaves (o1 Hltier, Jackson asserted. "They are in the position of the fictiona boy who murdered his father anc mother and then pleaded for len. clency because he was an orphan.
 What these men have overlooked IS that Adolph Hitler's acts art their acts. They intoxicated hin With power and adulation. They pu1 loaded gun in his eager hands It was left to Hitler to pull tht trigger, and when he did they all al that time approved.
 All Fully Guilty
 Nowhere do we find an instanc, where any one of the defendant. stood up against the rest and said This thing is wrong and I vii not go along with it. Where the, differed, their differences were a to method or disputes over jurisdic tion, but always within the frame work of the common plan"
 In his summation, Jackson singled Goering out. for some special treat ment, describing him as half mili tarist and half gangster." He saie that the former Luftwaffe chic stuck a pudgy finger in every pie.
 He used his SA muscle-men tt help bring the gang into power, Jackson said. Tn order to entrencf that power he contrived to hay, the Reichstag burned, established the Gestapo and created the con. centration camps.
 He was equally adept at massa cring opponents and at framing scandals to get rid of stubborn generals. He built up the Luftwaff, and hurled it at his defenseles neighbors. He was, next to Hitler the man who tied the activities O all the defendants together in ; common affort