to get Schacht released

After a few more words from Donnedieu, the judges solemnly agreed on their verdict on Schacht: eight years from the day he was arrested, or about six years more in jail. Reviewing his notes years later, Biddle drew four thick lines next to this passage: because, behind the scenes, something happened between that decision recorded on September 12, 1946 and the moment eighteen days later when Schacht would be
let off scot-free.

ранее по тексту, pp. 328-329:

He soon became aware that the Nazi banker did indeed have friends in the most unlikely places and influence everywhere. One day one of his team, the eminent New York international lawyer Ralph Albrecht, reported to him that the British assistant prosecutor Colonel Harry J. Phillimore – later a lord justice of appeal in London* – had accosted him in the hall outside the courtroom and urged the Americans to relax their remorseless pressure on the banker. When Albrecht, perplexed, asked ‘Why?’, Phillimore uneasily explained that certain representations had been made by Sir Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England from 1920 to 1944. ‘It would be most unfortunate,’ murmured the British colonel, ‘if anything were to happen to Schacht.’

There is in the records of His Majesty’s treasury in the British archives an illuminating file on the efforts made by Sir Montagu Norman to get Schacht released.

и про Дёница (там еще много интересного про войну на море):

To convict Grand Admiral Dönitz, in short, argued Judge Biddle in his dissenting judgement, would be to convict him not for starting a war, but for losing one.

и про журналистов:

During the entire Nuremberg proceedings the licensed German press had behaved in a despicable manner, which was however intelligible given that they and their publishers were dependent on the favours of the victorious powers, and have remained residually so until far into the Nineties.

despicable my ass... а пресса победителей? ладно русская пресса, у русских и у немцев хоть оправдание есть, у каждых - свое. а проститутки из американских, британских, французских газет? вот где настоящие бляди...
Там же

keep your chin up Hermann

оказывается речи Геринга, Гесса в Нюрнберге передавались по радио на весь мир.

Broadcast again live around the world, the Göring–Jackson duel began in earnest on Monday March 18. ... From all of this it is evident that the Göring–Jackson duel had torn Tribunal and prosecution asunder.

From all over the world fan mail poured into the prison addressed to the Reichsmarschall, with messages like ‘keep your chin up Hermann,’ and ‘good for you Hermann.’ He was not allowed to see the letters.

As Göring now began to speak from the witness stand on Wednesday March 13, the whole building was packed. The lion was not only fighting back, he erupted in glistening oratory, embellishing his answers with a ready humour that evoked gales of laughter from the public galleries. He hoped that somewhere out in the forests surrounding the city his wife and little girl were proud witnesses to this, his last stand. Millions of radio listeners around the world listened to the performance. In prison camps in Britain, across liberated Europe, and in America the men poured out into the open to cluster around the loudspeakers as ‘Hermann’s’ unmistakable voice echoed around their Quonset and Nissen huts. Former German prisoners-of-war have admitted to this author that they stood up and cheered, enthralled at the audio-spectacle of the Reichsmarschall fighting back for Germany. One Luftwaffe doctor who collected and digested the sparse news reports for fellow Luftwaffe officers interned at Latimer in Buckinghamshire observed that Göring won back much of his lost prestige at the interrogation centre on this day.

Boldest of all in his closing speech, delivered on August 31, was Rudolf Hess, who had hardly spoken during the trial. With his script broadcast around the world, he concluded with these words...
- NUREMBERG, THE LAST BATTLE

представим себе речи Милошевича, Хуссейна, Каддафи...

wife had now joined him

Biddle’s wife had now joined him in Nuremberg, and despite – or because of – this he too was now regularly in a foul temper. - - David Irving, NUREMBERG - THE LAST BATTLE

вспоминается испортили им всю каторгу...

Ирвинг не в первый раз насчет жен проходится.

innumerable telephone lines

While the prosecution disposed of innumerable telephone lines and comprehensive transport facilities, the defense counsel had to share two telephones between them. A document mentioned one day by the prosecution in the courtroom was rushed to the prosecutors from Vienna to Nuremberg by airplane on the next; defense counsel enjoyed no such streamlined facilities. - David Irving, NUREMBERG - THE LAST BATTLE

frequently Irving becomes pathetic... sometimes ridiculous.

respectable Jewish attorney

Handed the indictment, Dr Robert Ley’s first reaction was to ask for defence counsel, preferably ‘a respectable Jewish attorney.’ - Ibid.

стоит отметить, что Google возвращает всего 3 ссылки по запросу ‘respectable Jewish attorney’

Ирвинг не упускает случая развлечься на счет победителей:

General Eisenhower had turned down the requests of the British judges, Lawrence and Birkett, to bring their wives over from England into his theatre. Both were gloomy about it, and threatened repercussions through the Foreign Office; but the supreme commander probably feared even worse repercussions if Mamie were allowed to come over, and stood firm against creating any precedent.

как и подобает порядочному человеку, шуток относительно побежденных Ирвинг себе за редким исключением не позволяет. вот разве приведенная выше по поводу доктора Лея.

еще про виконта

Yet when the British war minister warned the cabinet that there were ‘obvious political reasons’ why Britain could not give any of her German prisoners to the Soviet Union, Lord Cherwell – famous for his role in advocating the unrestricted bombing of civilians in 1942 – discounted this and wrote to Churchill a week after the war ended recommending that ‘the Germans can be used in gangs and the ardent Nazis transferred to the Russians, who, I am sure, will be able to alter their views.’ - David Irving, NUREMBERG, THE LAST BATTLE [pdf]

The Viscount Cherwell

aka Frederick Lindemann,

advocated the "area" bombing of German cities during World War II... believed that a small circle of the intelligent and the aristocratic should run the world, resulting in a peaceable and stable society, "led by supermen and served by helots."[9] Jewish [10], yet anti-democratic, insensitive and elitist, Lindemann supported eugenics, held the working class, homosexuals and blacks in contempt and supported sterilization of the mentally incompetent. [Wiki]

he evidently felt

In the United States, there had also been more discussion on what to do with the defeated enemy. Herbert Wechsler, the assistant attorney-general, had drawn up a secret memorandum at the end of 1944 commenting on the war department’s latest proposal that the Nazi leaders be tried for ‘conspiracy to achieve domination of other countries’ – a crime of which nobody, he evidently felt, could ever accuse the United States leadership. - David Irving, NUREMBERG, THE LAST BATTLE [pdf]

курсив мой, ясное дело.