e court rose that evening after being in session thirty minutes beyond its appointed hour. (Opening)After eighteen months in court, and after evidence such as soap made from the fat of humans and a paperweight made from the head of young pole were displayed, the court had reached a verdict (Andrus, 145). They each had a chance to come before the court and plead their innocence. Hess, who looked confused, rambled aimlessly until the President finally stopped him. Ribbentrop pleaded that what he was being charged with was foreign policy that “someone else determined.” Hans Frank exhibited remorse for “Germany’s and Hitler’s turning away from God” (Andrus, 174). The court took a recess then filed in, one at a time, to receive their verdict. The verdicts were as follows: Georing – Death Raeder – Life Bormann – Death Funk – Life Ribbentrop – Death Hess – Life Kaltenbrunner – Death Speer – 20 years Keitel – Death Schirach – 20 years Frank – Death Neurath – 15 years Jodl – Death Doenitz – 10 years Streicher – Death Fritzsche - Acquitted Rosenburg – Death von Papen - Acquitted Frick – Death Schacht - Acquitted Seyss-Inquart – Death Saukel - Death (Calvocoressi, 141) All of the newspapers (The Manchester Guardian, The Chicago Daily Tribune, and The New York Times) portrayed the event as having a disturbing mood behind it, and described the indictment as sounding far more like a his...
