Mission at Nuremberg (41 page)

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“the foremost representatives . . .”:
Davidson,
Trial of the Germans,
p. 36.

155  
Goering stood and took a microphone:
Taylor,
Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials,
p. 166.

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“
Nein!
”:
Ibid., p. 176.

155  
“Not guilty . . .”:
Trial of the Major War Criminals (TMWC), Vol. 2, p. 97.

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“modern juristic literature . . .”:
Taylor,
Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials,
p. 167.

156  
“The wrongs which we seek . . .”:
TMWC, Vol. 2, p. 98.

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a ravine called Babi Yar:
Ibid., p. 124.

157  
destruction of the Warsaw ghetto:
Ibid., p. 126.

157  
the annihilation of millions:
Ibid., p. 136.

157  
evidence of a “medical experiment”:
Ibid., p. 129.

157  
Jackson spoke for four hours:
Barrett, “Civilization Opens Its Case.”

157  
As Gerecke spoke:
Barrett, “Thanksgiving in Nuremberg (1945).”

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prosecutor Major Frank Wallis spoke:
TMWC, Vol. 2, p. 177.

158  
“This was history being made
. . .”:
Barrett, “Thanksgiving in Nuremberg (1945).”

158  
to attend his services on Sundays:
Gerecke and Sinclair, “I Walked the Gallows.”

158  
the small two-cell chapel:
Gerecke, “My Assignment.”

159  
“You Lutherans have fifteen
. . .”:
Gerecke and Sinclair, “I Walked the Gallows.”

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“jolly” and “delightful”:
Gerecke, Toastmasters.

159  
“You've got the right address, Chappie
. . .”:
Hank Gerecke interview, 2 February 2008.

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the little church in Mögeldorf:
Gerecke, Toastmasters.

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OMGUS vacated:
Unless otherwise noted, the description of life in Nuremberg is drawn from Gaskin,
Eyewitnesses
(pp. 106–139), Taylor,
Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials
(pp. 209–217), Tusa and Tusa,
Nuremberg Trial
(pp. 227–229), and West, “Greenhouse with Cyclamens I (1946)” (pp. 9–14).

161  
a German band played jazz:
Gaskin,
Eyewitnesses,
p. 131, and Jerry Legow interview.

162  
“ . . . a relaxed, tolerant and philanderous ambience . . .”:
Taylor,
Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials,
p. 217.

162  
“ . . . who was not on the vigorous side . . .”:
West, “Greenhouse with Cyclamens I (1946),” p. 13.

162  
“ . . . in a manner certainly vulgar . . .”:
Tusa and Tusa,
Nuremberg Trial,
p. 229.

163  
Because of the need to translate:
Gaskin,
Eyewitnesses,
p. 130.

163  
the fishbowl of Nuremberg:
Ibid., p. 131

163  
“water-torture, boredom . . .”:
West, “Greenhouse with Cyclamens I (1946),” p. 8.

163  
“There was a lot of drinking . . .”:
Tusa and Tusa,
Nuremberg Trial,
p. 227.

164  
“I must feel convinced . . .”:
Gerecke and Sinclair, “I Walked the Gallows.”

164  
guards had placed notes:
Gerecke, “My Assignment.”

165  
“I know little about your politics . . .”:
Gerecke and Sinclair, “I Walked the Gallows.”

165  
German Imperial Navy:
Davidson,
Trial of the Germans,
p. 403.

165  
would create a bottleneck:
Ibid., 407.

165  
Doenitz had given them:
Ibid., 408.

166  
Lieutenant Heinz Eck was on trial:
Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals,
p. 2.

166  
When Eck's U-boat surfaced:
Davidson,
Trial of the Germans,
pp. 408–409.

166  
the Greek first officer:
Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals,
p. 3.

166  
“No thank you,” Rosenberg said:
Gerecke, “Monthly Report of Chaplains,” December 1945.

166  
a movement to leave the Catholic:
Steigmann-Gall,
Holy Reich,
p. 219.

167  
might be better spent:
Gerecke and Sinclair, “I Walked the Gallows.”

167  
“If my colleagues are . . .”:
Gerecke, Toastmasters.

167  
Raeder was born near Hamburg:
Davidson,
Trial of the Germans,
p. 368.

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promoted to admiral and chief:
Wistrich,
Who's Who,
p. 239.

167  
In a fit of jealousy:
Davidson,
Trial of the Germans,
p. 372.

167  
“clear and relentless fight . . .”:
Wistrich,
Who's Who,
p. 239.

167  
case of Reverend Martin Niemoeller:
Bird,
Erich Raeder,
p. 105.

168  
Hitler made Raeder grand admiral:
Wistrich,
Who's Who,
p. 240.

168  
Raeder began reading the scripture:
Gerecke and Sinclair, “I Walked the Gallows.”

168  
prepared questions:
“Chaplain Gerecke Urges Aid.”

168  
Soon enough:
Gerecke and Sinclair, “I Walked the Gallows.”

168  
“This business of religion . . .”:
Ibid.

168  
“the nastiest, the most disagreeable . . .”:
Ibid., and Gerecke, Toastmasters.

168  
Born in Wesel:
Wistrich,
Who's Who,
pp. 246–247.

169  
Ribbentrop . . . was his gofer:
Davidson,
Trial of the Germans,
p. 147.

169  
He was contemptuous:
Wistrich,
Who's Who,
p. 246, and Davidson,
Trial of the Germans,
p. 148.

169  
“Can a man be patriotic . . .”
:
Gerecke and Sinclair, “I Walked the Gallows.”

169  
“ . . . you must obey God . . .”:
Gerecke, “My Assignment.”

169  
“became more and more penitent . . .”:
Gerecke and Sinclair, “I Walked the Gallows.”

169  
which he eventually did:
Gerecke, “My Assignment.”

169  
Nazis were unresponsive at first:
Gerecke and Sinclair, “I Walked the Gallows.”

169  
his entire family had been Catholic:
Gerecke, Toastmasters.

169  
“get right with God”:
Gerecke and Sinclair, “I Walked the Gallows.”

170  
“I'll be there . . .”:
Gerecke, Toastmasters.

170  
Schacht's bitterness:
Gerecke and Sinclair, “I Walked the Gallows.”

170  
“But if there's any degree . . .”:
Gerecke, Toastmasters.

170  
“ . . . go to church with my wife”:
Gerecke and Sinclair, “I Walked the Gallows.”

170  
a bald head shaped like a bulldog's:
Goldensohn,
Nuremberg Interviews,
p. 204.

170  
He wasn't smart:
Kelley,
22 Cells at Nuremberg,
p. 195.

170  
the most notorious slaver:
Davidson,
Trial of the Germans,
p. 506.

170  
hands constantly fluttering:
Goldensohn,
Nuremberg Interviews,
p. 204.

170  
made most cringe:
Kelley,
22 Cells at Nuremberg,
p. 195.

170  
a habit of pausing:
Taylor,
Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials,
p. 428.

170  
“one of the dullest . . .”:
Tusa and Tusa,
Nuremberg Trial,
p. 501.

170  
“one of the toughest . . .”:
Taylor,
Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials
p. 427.

170  
shining and buffing them:
Goldensohn,
Nuremberg Interviews,
p. 204.

170  
“As a clergyman . . .”:
Gerecke and Sinclair, “I Walked the Gallows.”

171  
working toward an ideal:
Ibid.

171  
a working-class success story:
Goldensohn,
Nuremberg Interviews,
p. 204.

171  
from a seafaring family:
Davidson,
Trial of the Germans,
p. 505, and Wistrich,
Who's Who,
p. 267.

171  
shipwrecked off the Scottish coast:
Goldensohn,
Nuremberg Interviews,
p. 206, and Wistrich,
Who's Who,
p. 267.

171  
in a French POW camp:
Evans,
Third Reich at War,
p. 347.

171  
a lathe operator in a ball-bearing plant:
Ibid., and Goldensohn,
Nuremberg Interviews,
p. 206.

171  
began studying engineering:
Davidson,
Trial of the Germans,
p. 505.

171  
It was a happy marriage:
Evans,
Third Reich at War,
p. 347.

171  
over the next fifteen years:
Goldensohn,
Nuremberg Interviews,
p. 206.

171  
Two of the boys:
Davidson,
Trial of the Germans,
p. 505.

171  
a labor leader at his factory:
Kelley,
22 Cells at Nuremberg,
p. 196.

171  
he was making speeches:
Davidson,
Trial of the Germans,
p. 505.

171  
Sauckel heard Hitler:
Evans,
Third Reich at War,
p. 347.

171  
“the man chosen by fate . . .”:
Goldensohn,
Nuremberg Interviews,
p. 208.

171  
“the loyal fidelity of a dog . . .”:
Kelley,
22 Cells at Nuremberg,
p. 196.

171  
elected into the Reichstag:
Wistrich,
Who's Who,
p. 267.

172  
energetic leader of the Nazi Party:
Davidson,
Trial of the Germans,
p. 504.

172  
lowered the minimum age:
Evans,
Third Reich at War,
p. 350.

172  
the Reich's quenchless thirst:
Davidson,
Trial of the Germans,
p. 506, and Wistrich,
Who's Who,
p. 266.

172  
rounded up fifty thousand men:
Davidson,
Trial of the Germans,
p. 512.

172  
4.5 million foreign workers:
Evans,
Third Reich at War,
p. 350.

172  
In a letter to Rosenberg:
Davidson,
Trial of the Germans,
p. 512.

173  
jammed fifty to eighty . . . Sauckel evoked:
Davidson,
Trial of the Germans,
pp. 509–517.

173  
eight million foreign workers:
Evans,
Third Reich at War,
p. 357.

173  
not how they were treated:
Davidson,
Trial of the Germans,
p. 507.

174  
he would come to chapel services:
Gerecke and Sinclair, “I Walked the Gallows.”

174  
“how I can prepare myself . . .”:
Gerecke, Toastmasters.

174  
Sauckel asked for God's mercy:
Ibid.

174  
and wiped away tears:
Gerecke, “My Assignment.”

174  
“All right, Mr. Sauckel . . .”:
Gerecke, Toastmasters.

175  
“big men . . .”:
Ibid.

175  
“Of course I'm coming . . .”:
Ibid.

175  
“a delightful conversationalist”:
Gerecke and Sinclair, “I Walked the Gallows.”

175  
His grandfather was an architect:
Wistrich,
Who's Who,
pp. 290–291.

175  
proved useful to Hitler:
Ibid., p. 291, and Davidson,
Trial of the Germans,
p. 483.

175  
At the end of the war . . . he backed off:
Davidson,
Trial of the Germans,
p. 485.

176  
“tried to continue Gerecke's ministry”:
Grossmith,
Cross and the Swastika,
p. 121.

176  
“ . . . made a lasting impression . . .”:
Ibid., p. 5.

176  
“fitted least snugly
. . .”:
Smith,
Reaching Judgment,
p. 292.

176  
“deeply ashamed . . .”:
Gerecke and Sinclair, “I Walked the Gallows.”

177  
“those important doctrines . . .”:
Gerecke, Toastmasters.

177  
walking in a public area:
Fritzsche,
Sword in the Scales,
p. 312.

177  
a long line of blacksmiths:
Goldensohn,
Nuremberg Interviews,
pp. 49–52.