{"id":1115,"date":"2016-03-17T11:10:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T15:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2016-03-17T11:10:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T15:10:20","slug":"a-flurry-in-the-courtroom-70-years-after-nuremberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/2016\/03\/17\/a-flurry-in-the-courtroom-70-years-after-nuremberg\/","title":{"rendered":"A flurry in the Courtroom [70 Years After Nuremberg]"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nuremberg Palace<\/p><\/div>\n

March 13<\/p>\n

Another day — G\u00f6ring day, if you please.\u00a0 He took the stand at 2:30 p.m. It came very suddenly.\u00a0 We had finished our cross-examination for the witness Kesselring just after the noon recess when Dr. Stammer, counsel for G\u00f6ring, suddenly called him to the stand.\u00a0 There was a flurry in the courtroom.\u00a0 Press men rushed to get the word on the wires.\u00a0 People came into the courtroom in a hurry and in two minutes it was packed to the doorsG\u00f6ring was very calm as he began his testimony.\u00a0 The defendants all leaned forward in the dock — the rascal — a real buccaneer. [p. 262, 3\/13\/1946]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"G\u00f6ring<\/a>

G\u00f6ring in the dock<\/p><\/div>\n

“He began with the story of his life and went into his first association with Hitler and recounted the days and years up to 1933 — then we recessed for the day.” [p. 262, 3\/13\/1946]\u00a0 \u00a0 Thomas Dodd’s letters\u00a0clearly convey the excitement and tension as the\u00a0Trials at Nuremberg truly begin to\u00a0illustrate the actions of the defendants in their own words.\u00a0\u00a0The following day,<\/p>\n

This was the second\u00a0G\u00f6ring day as he was on the stand all day and he has made a most unusual witness, and I think quite a frank one.\u00a0 He admitted responsibility for many of the offenses and he is not cringing or crawling.\u00a0 He will go down fighting — somehow he makes me think of a captured lion. Of course I am not forgetting his part in all of this business and much less am I unmindful of the facts that all of these top flight Nazis are spellbinders and fakers — that is how they did it — or part of how they did it anyway. [p. 263, 3\/14\/1946]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

By the 18th, Dodd was commenting\u00a0on how they continue to attempt to move things along despite the obstacles\u00a0that kept cropping up.\u00a0 But at all costs, “we must give these defendants a fair hearing — a most fair hearing — otherwise this whole effort is a farce.” [p. 264, 3\/18\/1946]<\/p>\n

–Owen Doremus and Betsy Pittman<\/p>\n

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[Owen Doremus, a junior at Edwin O. Smith High School, is supporting this blog series with research and writing as part of an independent study.]<\/p>\n

The majority of the letters from Tom Dodd to his wife Grace have been published and can be found in Letters from Nuremberg, My father\u2019s narrative of a quest for justice<\/em>. Senator Christopher J. Dodd with Lary Bloom. New York: Crown Publishing, 2007.<\/p>\n

Images available in Thomas J. Dodd Papers<\/span><\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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