Who The Defendants Are
In The War Crime Trials
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As the little known Reichleiter
(organizational head of the Nazi
party* Dr. Robert Ley issued po
ROBERT LEY
litical orders which had much to
do with such fanatical indoctrin
ation as the “Strength through
Joy” movement and the “Many
I Children League.” Fifty-five years
! old, Ley rose in party ranks to be
! come leader of the German “la
bor” front (the word is quoted be
cause Ley wiped out the unions),
and controlled 95 per cent of all
gainfully employed persons in the
Reich—perhaps 30,000,000 people.
He wrote editorials with a poison,
Aryan pen, fought the Catholic
Church, and when captured by
the Americans last May tried to
pass himself off as Dr. Ernst Dis
telmeyer, failed, attempted sui
cide and failed again.
Dr. Hans Frank, who made the
blood run in Poland as German
governor general there, reaped the
fruits of opportunism when Hit
ler came to power in 1933 and
made him minister of justice for
Bavaria. A lawyer himself, Frank
forced the bar association to rein
state his father, a lawyer disbarr
ed for swindling, and maintained
his own private law office. It was
besieged by clients who, cash in
hand, wanted “legal advice” on
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how to petition Frank as minis
ter of justice. He took over in;
HANS FRANK
Poland with the aim of making
the Poles know that “a master I
race is reigning over them.” In j
prison at Nuernberg today, Frank,.
now 45, perspires, wears only silk
panties, and has taken to prayer!
and reading the Bible.
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The Catholic Church, the Pro
testant Church, Free Masonry, the
Jews, social democracy, the Bol
shevicks, the Versailles Treaty—
those are some of the things Dr.
Alfred Rosenberg was against.
ALFRED ROSENBERG
Rosenberg, a perfumed dandy, as
deupty commissioner of German
education, had charge of the Nazi
indoctrination of school children.
While Hilter was writing “Mein
Kampf” in jail Rosenberg visited
him daily and exchanged ideas
with him. Rosenberg, a one-time I
White Russian, was one of the i
| most unpopular men in Germany,
; especially after he influenced Hit
ler to attack Russia. He was reich
minister for Eastern Europe un
der the Germans, once had the
fancy title of “Director of Phila
sophic Outlook.”
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Tourist travel without passports
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Cl CHRISTMAS GIFT S-Barbara Hale of the movies
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