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
