{"id":1234,"date":"2016-05-11T05:01:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T09:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2016-05-10T10:02:14","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T14:02:14","slug":"the-swing-of-the-pendulum-70-years-after-nuremberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/2016\/05\/11\/the-swing-of-the-pendulum-70-years-after-nuremberg\/","title":{"rendered":"The swing of the pendulum [70 Years After Nuremberg]"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nuremberg Palace<\/p><\/div>\n

Routine continued as the defense of Karl Doenitz began on May 8th and continued through the next day.\u00a0 Cross-examination\u00a0was the responsibility of\u00a0Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe and began on May 10th, the 126<\/a>th day of the Nuremberg Trial. Court recessed later in the afternoon, after which Dodd and others flew to Prague.<\/p>\n

We had a fine trip down and arrived about five p.m.\u00a0 We went to the Ancron Hotel where I stayed last January.\u00a0 Yesterday morning we all breakfasted early and at nine thirty were taken<\/p>\n

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Awards presented to Dodd<\/p><\/div>\n

to the War office and there we were decorated with much ceremony.\u00a0 I was awarded the highest award that can be given to a civilian foreigner–the Order of the White Lion 3rd Class! [p. 301, 5\/12\/1946]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The emotional pendulum\u00a0between the tension of the courtroom–defense and cross-examination–as Doenitz tried to explain the activities of the German Navy and the exultation the Americans saw in Prague, however prosaically written, \u00a0must have been exhausting. “[U]p I went on their shoulders and they paraded about the courtyard singing and cheering.\u00a0 Then up came the festive bottle and I took a good swig as they cheered some more.” [p. 302, 5\/12\/1946]<\/p>\n

Witnesses resumed testimony on the 14th Tom reports to Grace.\u00a0 In the same paragraph he continues, “On Saturday night, two young soldiers were killed….shot by hidden assailants.”\u00a0\u00a0 The workaday, and now mundane, details of the trial\u00a0are\u00a0stark in\u00a0contrast with the understanding that “there have been some ten or fifteen soldiers murdered since last summer.”\u00a0 And to compound the grief, Tom writes that he is acquainted with the family of one of the young soldiers–Bill Timmons of New Haven–who was due to go home the same day\u00a0Tom sent the news. \u00a0[p. 304, 5\/14\/1946]\u00a0 A clear demonstration that although the leaders and regime had fallen, the tragedy of war continued.<\/p>\n

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Portion of a letter, 5\/14\/1946<\/p><\/div>\n

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–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":"

Routine continued as the defense of Karl Doenitz began on May 8th and continued through the next day.\u00a0 Cross-examination\u00a0was the responsibility of\u00a0Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe and began on May 10th, the 126th day of the Nuremberg Trial. Court recessed later in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[33,31,20],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NL7Z-jU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1234"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}