Evening star., 1946-10-01
Goering Is Sentenced
To Hang Along With
Eleven Other Nazis
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arrested In Berlin and delivered to
Nuremberg for trial.
Goering and Ribhentrop were con-
victed on al four counts in the In.
dictment against them, while Hess
was convicted Of two counts, con-
spiracy and crimes against the
peace, and acquitted of the last two
war crimes and crimes against hui
manity.
Eight defendants were convicted
on count one Of the indictment
conspiracy to commit the other
three acts charged-the only one
common to all "a defendants.
They were, in addition to Goer-
ing, Hess and Ribbentrop, Keitel
Rosenberg, Raeder, Jodl and Won
Neurath.
In addition to Goering and Rib
bentrop, four others-Keitel, Ros-
enberg, Jodl and Won Neurath-
were convicted on all four counts
in the indictment.
IL Convicted on Second Count.
Twelve of the 16 defendants
charged with the second count
crimes against the peace-were con-
victed. They were Goering, Hess,
Ribbentrop, Keitel, Rosenberg, Rae
der, Jodl, Neurath, Frick, Funk, Doe
nitz and Seyss-Inquart. Those ac-
quilted on this count, in addition
to Schacht and Won Papen, were
Sauckel and Speer.
On the third count-war crimes
18 defendants were charged and 1e
were convicted: Goering, Ribben-
trop, Keitel, Rosenberg, Frick, Funk,
Doenitz, Raeder, Sauckel, Jodl,
Seyss- -Inquart, Speer, Neurath, Bor-
mann, Kaltenbrunner and Frank.
Acquitted on this count were Hess
and Fritsche.
Seyss-Inquart, Speer, Neurath, Mar
tin Bormann, Adolf Hitler's deputy,
tried in absentia; Kaltenbrunner and
Frank. Acquitted on this count were
Hess and Fritzsche.
Sixteen of the 18 charged with
crimes against humanity-the fourth
count-also were convicted: Goer-
ing, Bormann, Ribbentrop, Keitel,
Kaltenbrunner, Rosenberg, Frank,
Frick, Funk, Sauckel, Jodl, Seyss-
Inquart, Speer, Neurath, Streicher
and Won Schirach. Acquitted on
this count were Hess and Fritsche.
mo Excuse" for Goering.
The tribunal struck hard at Goer-
ing In its conclusions, declaring the
former Reichsmarshal's guilt "is
unique in its enormity.'
'The record diseloses no excuse
for this man." the tribunal said.
OF Hess, the tribunal had this to
say:
THAT Hess acts in an abnormal
manner, suffers from loss of memory
and has mentally deteriorated dur
ing this trial may be true. But
there is nothing to show that he
does not realize the nature of the
charges against him or is incapable
Of defending himself. There is no
suggestion that Hess was not COM
pletely sane when the acts charged
against him were committed"
Ribbentrop was styled by the tri-
bunal as the willing tool of Hitler,
but the opinion convicting him of
all four counts added: "It was be-
cause Hitler's policies and plans
conceded with his own ideas that
Ribbentrop served him so willingly
to the end"
The court brushed aside as "un-
true" Ribbentrop's defense that Hit
Ter made all the important deciS-
ions.
The tribunal consumed almost a
thousand words in booming Keitel,
who gulped, lowered his sharp Prus-
sian chin a moment as he listened
and then stared blankly ahead.
The court said Keitel never de-
MED his connection with various
atcs Of Hitler's regime, and then
added:
"His defense relies on the fact
that he is a soldier and on the doc
trine Of superior ORDERS" prohibited
by Article Eight (of the tribunals
charter) as q defense.
! There is nothing in mitigation.
where crims as shocking and extern
sive have been committed conscious
ly, ruthlessly and without military
excuse of justification"
j As commander of U-boats, the
tribunal said, Doenitz was more than
an ordinary figure m war planning.
! "Doenitz was consulted almost
continuously by Hitler" the judg-
ment said.
! In two instances, the court listed
mitigating circumstances for the ad-
miral, saying that in view of all
the circumstances of naval warfare,
he could not be held guilty for his
conduct of submarine warfare and
that British naval prisoners of war
were treated according to the Geneva
Convention. e.
/. The judgment indicated that Ad-
miral Raeder convicted himself by
admitting breaches of the Versailles
Treaty. He was blamed for rebuild
ang the German Navy for war, for
tarrying out orders to shoot COM
mandos, but was absolved, as was
boenitz, of guilt in unrestricted u
boat warfare.
The evidence also showed, the
court went on, that Raeder instigated
Che Norwegian invasion and the
3ustices refused to believe his story
that he was only trying to forestall
4he British.
. Orders Were Keitel Defense.
. In Jodl's conviction on all counts
The tribunal ruled as 1t had in that
of Keitel, commenting:
: Ills defense is the doctrine of
superior orders-there is nothing in
mitigation. Participation in such
crimes as these has never been re-
uuired of any soldier and he cannot
now shield himself behind myth
tal requirement of soldierly obedi-
ence at all costs as his excuse"
: Schacht Resignation Cited.
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