Notes from N

As the French grimly finished their case, and the Russians grimly took over, more reminders of the evil past; entered Nuernberg's black record:

P: Two German artillery batteries had deliberately shattered Louvain University's Library in 1940, the second time in two wars. Just before the shelling, a German officer gave a German reason for it: "These Belgian swine have an insulting inscription about us on their library." The officer was wrong. Cardinal Mercier's proposed inscription--Furore Teutonico Diruta, Dono Americano Restituta (Destroyed by German Fury, Restored by American Gift)--was never used because Herbert Hoover, Nicholas Murray Butler and U.S. pacifists denounced it as hate-breeding.

P:Said Witness Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, who had turned anti-Nazi after losing the Battle of Stalingrad: ["I tried in vain to] find some sense for the suffering and death of so many soldiers."

P: In the city of Kerch, Russia, all the schoolchildren were ordered out for a walk one day. Afterwards, when they were hungry and cold, hot coffee and cake were distributed to them. Both coffee and cake had been poisoned. The children died.

P: At Janovsky concentration camp, SS Obersturmfuehrer Gustav Wilhaus used to shoot at prisoners from his office window. Once, to amuse his nine-year-old daughter, he "gave an order to throw two four-year-old children high into the air while he took shots at them. His daughter applauded and yelled: 'Do it again.' He did it again."

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