At the Nuremberg trials, Herman Goring sat in his gray Luftwafa uniform and yellow boots, defiant and unrepentant. He justified concentration camps as necessary to preserve order, likening the fura principle to the hierarchy of the Catholic Church and the USSR. Janet Flanner called him a brain without a conscience. On March 18th, 1946, Robert Jackson began his cross-examination. Goring admitted signing decrees depriving Jews of businesses and property, including after Cristalln, and confirmed the chilling remark. I would not like to be a Jew in Germany. Other defendants tried to downplay their knowledge. Then Ribbentrop, the gaslighting master. I knew nothing, he claims. Jackson slams maps down. Camps everywhere surrounding your many houses. How could you not know? Silence. Everyone knows he knew. Later, Awitz commandant Rudolph Host described mass gassings of thousands, exposing the full horror of Nazi crimes.

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