{"id":1182,"date":"2016-04-21T08:27:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T12:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2016-04-21T08:27:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T12:27:04","slug":"a-week-of-contrasts-70-years-after-nuremberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/2016\/04\/21\/a-week-of-contrasts-70-years-after-nuremberg\/","title":{"rendered":"A week of contrasts [70 Years After Nuremberg]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 168px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/11134\/20002:1470\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/archives.lib.uconn.edu\/islandora\/object\/20002%3A1470\/datastream\/TN\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nuremberg Palace<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0Two more days are gone.\u00a0 I cross-examined Alfred Rosenberg this morning and think I did an adequate job&#8211;everyone seemed highly pleased with it&#8230;I did it in about two hours and thereby set a new record here&#8211;and I trust a new pattern for the rest of the case&#8230;I tell you, Grace, if I had command of each defense case I could cut this trial in half. \u00a0[p. 287, 4\/17\/1946]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/11134\/20002:860046659\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/archives.lib.uconn.edu\/islandora\/object\/20002%3A860046659\/datastream\/TN\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justice Jackson traveling<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Having made some slight progress in moving the trials forward, Dodd and Jackson took advantage of a brief break to travel. Driving through the Alps, they first stopped in Garmisch. &#8220;It is a beautiful place in the Alps&#8221; in stark contrast with the midday stop at Dachau. &#8220;We saw the Dauchau camp&#8211;the gas chambers and crematory where thousands were executed and disposed of by the Nazis.&#8221; [p. 289, 4\/19\/1946] The men spent East Sunday in Oberammergau, &#8220;a lovely Bavarian community.&#8221; Riding in a open jeep, the men drove to Innsbruck, traveled the Brenner Pass and crossed the Austrian-Italian border. &#8220;I could look down the precipices as we rode along. Really Grace, we must do all of this with the children someday.&#8221; [p. 290, 4\/21\/1946].<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to a future reunited with his family, Dodd and Jackson returned, slightly refreshed, to resume their work in Nurnberg.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Owen Doremus and Betsy Pittman<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>[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<p>The majority of the letters from Tom Dodd to his wife Grace have been published and can be found in <em>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<p>Images available in <a href=\"http:\/\/archives.lib.uconn.edu\/islandora\/object\/20002%3A20\"><u><span style=\"color: #008080\">Thomas J. 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