The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-31

Wilson, manager of the Wash
 ington bureau of the United
 Press, has returned to the Uni
 ted States after a tour of war
 torn Europe which he described
 in series of dispatches last
 week. Today. Wilson gives a
 closeup picture of the Nazi
 leaders now on trial for plung-
 ing Europe to it's present chaos.
 By LYLE C. WILSON
 Washington, July 31 (UP) - Since my return from Europe last week more people have asked me to tell them about the trial of the big shot Nazis at Nuremberg than about any other phase of the trip
 Hows old Goering taking it2"
 "Ribbentrop doesn't look like such slick article now. eh?"
 Hate Each Other
 The prisoners have to sit so close together they can scarcely squirn This appears to make them hate each other, and just the other day Jodl, the spit and Polish Prussian general, let out yelp of protest. He told the court he should not be compelled to sit in the company of the foul individuals with whom he is indicated.
 Only Goering appears to be en- loylng the proceedings. Occasionally he dominates the big. rectangular court room. Show of that he is, big Hermann loves 1t. He knows he is to be hanged and he apparently doesn't give & damn. Whatever else may be said of Goering, he does not appear to be a coward.
 Goering has the No. 1 or pole po- sition in the prisoners box. You en- ter the big room from the side and step immediately into another world. On your left are the prison CTS, their two rows of half enclosed seats parallel to the wall Imme- diately in front of them at long tables are the German attorneys. Still further across the room are court recorders and secretaries of the court.
 Just beyond them, well raised above all others. is the high bench of international military justice. There sit two representatives of each of the accusing powers-the Soviet Union, Great Britain, France and the United States. Former At torney General Francis Riddle is our judge. Judge John J. Parker, of the U S. court of Appeals is our alter nate. Prosecuting for the United States is Associate Justice Robert H. Jackson of the Supreme Court.
 Accused Shown Own Dirt
 Prosecutors sit at tables widely l spaced across the breadth of the room. In front of them is the trial scene Behind them are the tiers | of comfortable theater seats from which guests view the proceedings, | like watching animals at the zoo, | only more comfortable. At the | other end of the room. beyond the | accused and the judges are the translators, the marshal of the court. the witness box and the movie | screen.
 Lights are doused from time to time and the accused are shown some of the dirty things they &C., complished. Some close their eyes or look away from the movie horrors of the Belsen and Dachau murder camps.
 visited the trial on off-days for everyone but the Germans and the Russians. They were wrangling over who killed the 10000 or ll.0O0 Poles discovered mass-buried in the spring of l943 deep in the Katyn Forest. Both the Germans and the Russians have been kicking Poles around for some hundreds of years, The Ger mans say the Russians killed these particular Poles. The Russians say the Germans killed them.
 So a rumpled German field gen. eral was the first witness. He com- manded the Nazi infantry division which discovered" the bodies. The Russians claim his division killed the Poles.
 "Nein, nein, nein," said the Ger man general in several thousand words.
 No Regard for Fatty
 Next was an equally runIpled Polish professor. He was a Russian witness and was positive the mur- derers were German. II Goering grimaced through the dull day From time to time he would scribble and hand a sugges- tion to the German attorneys near est him. It was old stuff to the at- torneys and they stuffed the notes in their pockets without much re- gard for fat Hermanns feelings.
 Next to Goering sat Rudolf Hess, a wan and blank-faced character. Hess Stares straight ahead. Ribben-