Nuernberg ....
Scene Of The Crime
By ROBERT E. JOHNSON. Newsfeature Writer
In Nuernberg Naziism has come full circle.
Nine years ago this fall the stratosphere above it was pierced by
a sapphire steeple of searchlight beams 50,000 feet high, at the base of
which 150,000 brown-shirted supermen, massed in the flare of flood
lights, bawled fanatical allegiance to the Nazi cause.
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But today it is rather dark in
Nuernberg, and quiet, as it is in
the ruins of other bombed cities.
The imminence of war trials for
Nazi Germany’s leaders would not
make for celebration, especially
in the city jail cells, where the
men who years ago took the
cheers of the multitude now wait
for court to open.
Its sentimental links with the
Germanic past made Nuernberg a
logical point of departure for the
Nazi political voyage. Here the
party congress met in 1933 to pro
claim the founding of the Third
Reich and returned bloated with
more power year after year. Here
Hitler cried, with endearing gener
osity, “If I had the Ukraine! If
we had the Urals!” And with char
acteristic modesty: “ Germany
never will be conquered — from
without or within!”
His heart was soft toward the I
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souhtern city of half a million.
The medieval tone of its Old
Town, which produced the paint
, ings of Albrecht Durer, was al
ways carefully preserved. Until
Nuernberg was bombed its walls,
with a tower for every day in the
year, its moats, drawbridges and
castles still stood. Red sandstone
churches and steeply gabled
houses faced the narrow, crooked
streets of Frederick II’s time.
Here some smith assembled the
first pocket watch, the “Nuern
berg egg.” Wire-drawing was in
vented in Nuernberg, and so were
the terrestial and celestial globes.
But that was in a better time. To
day Nuernberg means the notori
ous 1933 race laws, which forbade
Jews to marry German Aryans.
Prewar travelers saw in Nuern
berg a Santa Claus city of fir trees
and toys. In shops smelling of glue
and paint craftsmen chipped away
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NUERNBERG—Its key role in Naziism is symbolized in this bold
party emblem erected at sprawling Luitpold Stadium.
at baubles for children, spun out^
bright ornaments for Christmas J
trees, and assembled paint and j
crayon sets. But behind the whis- !
kers Nuernberg was producing
the diesels, radios and chemicals
that got Hitler h^ Ukraine, but •
not his Urals.
Linked industrially with Furth,
where Messerschmitt fighter
planes were made, Nuernbrg had
a military value in excess of its
charm. It controlled the approach
es to the Danube from its perch
in the north Bavarian mountains,
its rail yards could handle 3,000
trains, and it was the key point
on rail and water routes to and
from northern Germany and Italy
and southeastern Europe.
Late in the war the Germans
were believed ready to move the
capital there from Berlin. Nuern
berg was defended so feverishly
that the RAF suffered a record
single-mission loss in attacking it.
But the attacks went on, making
life in the Nazi dream city a night
mare, and peace a harsh awaken
ing.
In Nuernberg through the ner- J
vous Thirties enough political en- (
ergy was generated to charge a ^
world with hate. Now the engin-,
eers wait for the gavel to fall in [
what is no longer the toy capital j
of Europe—but the scene of the
crime, and the scene of the trial
of the criminals.
RETURN S— Constance Cum
mings (above) stage and film
actress, is making a movie come
back after a long absence. She’ll
appear In a version of a Noel
Coward play.
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it was announced recently by Ray
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