Mission at Nuremberg (44 page)

232  
“with great dignity . . .”:
Neave,
On Trial at Nuremberg,
p. 304.

232  
“more honest”:
Gilbert,
Nuremberg Diary,
p. 227.

232  
“ . . . disparaging Keitel's intelligence . . .”:
Fritzsche,
Sword in the Scales,
p. 176.

233  
smuggling them out:
Speer,
Spandau,
p. 8.

233  
O'Connor smuggled it:
Niklas Frank interview.

233  
The epigraph of the manuscript:
Frank,
In the Shadow,
p. 333.

233  
peddling it to right-wing:
Ibid., p. 332.

233  
short exercise walks:
Andrus and Zwar,
I Was the Nuremberg Jailer,
p. 142.

233  
“It was gratifying . . .”:
Gerecke, “My Assignment.”

233  
“ . . . before the verdict”:
Gerecke and Sinclair, “I Walked the Gallows.”

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in nearby homes:
Gerecke, “My Assignment.”

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wives who were scrambling:
Hank Gerecke interview, 1 April 2008, and Niklas Frank interview.

234  
“I am too emotionally unstrung . . .”:
Gerecke, “My Assignment.”

234  
“He would not show the victors
. . .”:
Posner,
Hitler's Children
, p. 54.

234  
Erich Raeder couldn't see his wife:
Gerecke and Sinclair, “I Walked the Gallows.”

234  
Lawrence had personally:
Raeder,
My Life
, p. 400.

234  
The Russians never explained:
Gerecke and Sinclair, “I Walked the Gallows.”

234  
without ever charging her:
Davidson,
Trial of the Germans,
p. 391.

234  
“that of being my wife
. . .”:
Raeder,
My Life,
p. 400.

234  
O'Connor smuggled Schirach's son:
Schirach,
Price of Glory,
pp. 211–212.

234  
accompanied the family members:
Gerecke, “My Assignment.”

235  
“the most ungodly woman
. . .”:
Gerecke and Sinclair, “I Walked the Gallows.”

235  
escorted her down:
Fritzsche,
Sword in the Scales,
p. 320.

235  
Gerecke had traveled to Sackdilling:
Goering,
My Life with Goering,
pp. 154–155.

236  
was outcast in school:
Klaus von Schirach interview.

236  
he sent them care packages:
Hank Gerecke interview, 4 January 2008 and Niklas Frank interview.

236  
“We saw little hands . . .”:
Gerecke, “My Assignment.”

237  
“They were Katzenjammer Kids . . .”:
Gerecke and Sinclair, “I Walked the Gallows.”

237  
Cordula's earliest memories:
Posner,
Hitler's Children,
p. 103.

237  
tried to make him laugh:
Niklas Frank interview.

237  
“like an eternal zombie
. . .”:
Frank,
In the Shadow,
p. 371.

238  
“ . . . killed for nothing”:
Niklas Frank interview.

238  
“heart-rending” . . . “emotional impact . . .”:
Fritzsche,
Sword in the Scales,
p. 320.

238  
standing on a chair . . . “My golden treasure!
. . .”:
Posner,
Hitler's Children,
p. 198

239  
Emmy had urged Edda:
Gerecke and Sinclair, “I Walked the Gallows.”

239  
“Got a cigarette?”:
Ibid.

239  
Andrus had relaxed another rule:
Fritzsche,
Sword in the Scales,
pp. 318–319.

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would be extended for another week:
Conot,
Justice at Nuremberg,
p. 492.

240  
gave the families more time:
Gerecke and Sinclair, “I Walked the Gallows.”

240  
an atmosphere of general gloom:
Conot,
Justice at Nuremberg,
p. 492.

240  
One thousand extra guards:
Tusa and Tusa,
Nuremberg Trial,
p. 467.

240  
Snipers positioned themselves:
Ibid., p. 466.

240  
“was at his most absurd . . .”:
Taylor,
Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials,
p. 574.

240  
“. . . have made a mockery . . .”:
TMWC, Vol. 22, pp. 522–523.

241  
in a bleak mood:
Fritzsche,
Sword in the Scales,
p. 321.

241  
“if there is ever to be . . .”:
Taylor,
Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials,
p. 571.

241  
“It is your duty . . .”:
Andrus and Zwar,
I Was the Nuremberg Jailer,
p. 142.

241  
Lawrence had banned photography:
Fritzsche,
Sword in the Scales,
p. 321.

242  
“Goering persecuted the Jews . . .”:
TMWC, Vol. 22, pp. 524–527.

242  
“worst shape of any man . . .”:
Persico,
Nuremberg,
pp. 397–398.

242  
they took off their headphones:
Fritzsche,
Sword in the Scales,
p. 322.

242  
“ . . . Fritzsche is not guilty . . .”:
TMWC, Vol. 22, p. 585.

242  
“ . . . the walls of Jericho crumble”:
Fritzsche,
Sword in the Scales,
pp. 323–324.

243  
Schacht shook hands with no one:
Speer,
Spandau,
p. 5.

243  
some congratulations in return:
Fritzsche,
Sword in the Scales,
p. 324.

243  
a bizarre press conference:
Persico,
Nuremberg,
p. 402.

243  
“ . . . the Spiritual Councilor . . .”:
Gerecke and Sinclair, “I Walked the Gallows.”

243  
“took the verdicts like soldiers . . .”:
Gerecke, “My Assignment.”

243  
rode the elevator up to the dock:
Reactions of the defendants to their sentences are drawn from Persico,
Nuremberg,
p. 403, and TMWC, Vol., 22, pp. 588–589.

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it sounded abstract:
Speer,
Spandau,
pp. 3–4.

245  
Forty-five minutes after:
Taylor,
Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials,
p. 598.

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cell doors were left open:
Fritzsche,
Sword in the Scales,
p. 325.

245  
“It is a terrible thing . . .”:
Tusa and Tusa,
Nuremberg Trial,
p. 473.

245  
Keitel refused to allow:
Davidson,
Trial of the Germans,
p. 342.

245  
frank admission of weakness:
Smith,
Reaching Judgment,
p. 186.

245  
“ . . . no surprise to me . . .”:
Keitel,
Memoirs,
p. 237.

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“I will willingly . . .”:
Ibid., p. 238.

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Goering's bravery:
Taylor,
Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials,
p. 601.

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or that he be shot:
Ibid., p. 602.

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“ . . . and not for being soldiers”:
Ibid., p. 607.

246  
he became emotional:
Kelley,
22 Cells at Nuremberg,
p. 124.

247  
“shunning his own personal responsibility”:
Keitel,
Memoirs,
p. 235.

247  
Despite his depression:
Tusa and Tusa,
Nuremberg Trial,
p. 485, and Kelley,
22 Cells at Nuremberg,
p. 126.

247  
“One has only a bunk . . .”:
Keitel,
Memoirs,
p. 31.

247  
“I regret nothing . . .”:
Ibid., p. 237.

247  
“in the name of humanity”:
Fritzsche,
Sword in the Scales,
pp. 180–181.

248  
a gradual distancing:
Childs,
Introduction to the Old Testament
, p. 154.

249  
“will suffer a sevenfold vengeance”:
Genesis 4:15, NRSV.

249  
In Hebrew folk etymology:
Rosenberg, “Genesis: Introduction,” p. 10.

249  
a tribe of metalworkers:
Miller and Hayes,
History of Ancient Israel and Judah,
p. 80.

249  
he wanted to connect the history:
Westermann,
Genesis 1–11: A Commentary
, p. 318, cited in Volf,
Exclusion & Embrace,
p. 93.

249  
“The logic of sin proves stronger . . .”:
Volf,
Exclusion & Embrace,
p. 96.

250  
“The story about a murderous ‘them' . . .”:
Ibid., p. 93.

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Jesus's suffering on the cross:
Ibid., p. 26.

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“ . . . why have you forsaken me?”:
Mark 15:34, NRSV.

250  
armor to protect him:
Lapide,
Von Kain bis Judas: Ungewohnte Einsichten zu Sünde und Schuld
, cited in Volf,
Exclusion & Embrace,
p. 98.

250  
“ . . . Cain's scanty offering . . .”:
Volf,
Exclusion & Embrace,
p. 98.

251  
“away from the presence of the Lord”:
Genesis 4:16, NRSV.

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not whether they should:
Volf interview, 26 August 2010.

 

CHAPTER 10

252  
“Good is opposed to evil
. . .”:
Mackie, “Evil and Omnipotence,” p. 1.

252  
almost day and night:
Gerecke, “My Assignment.”

252  
a walk up and down:
Taylor,
Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials,
p. 607.

252  
no more chapel services:
Gerecke and Sinclair, “I Walked the Gallows.”

252  
four or five times a day:
Gerecke, “My Assignment.”

252  
“What an effect . . .”:
Speer,
Spandau,
pp. 6–10.

253  
Ribbentrop read his Bible:
Gerecke, “My Assignment.”

254  
if they could take cold showers:
Conot,
Justice at Nuremberg,
pp. 502–503.

254  
“My God, give me the strength . . .”:
Goering,
My Life with Goering,
pp. 156–158.

255  
He had died when:
Gerecke, “My Assignment.”

255  
Until December 1947:
“U.S. Army Trials in Post-War Germany.”

256  
hanged twenty-eight men:
Unless otherwise noted, the description of the execution preparations is drawn from Tilles,
By the Neck Until Dead,
pp. 40–49 and pp. 111–113.

258  
Speer was irritated at first:
Speer,
Spandau,
p. 10.

258  
The team blacked out:
Tilles,
By the Neck Until Dead,
p. 124.

258  
their final instructions:
Ibid., p. 128.

258  
the chaplains went from cell to cell:
Gerecke, “My Assignment.”

258  
Andrus had summoned:
Persico,
Nuremberg,
p. 417.

258  
he hadn't heard anything:
Ibid.

259  
refusing to leave his cell:
Swearingen,
Mystery of Hermann Goering's Suicide,
p. 68.

259  
“What time are the executions . . .”:
Persico,
Nuremberg,
p. 420.

259  
Eggers had been surprised:
Swearingen,
Mystery of Hermann Goering's Suicide,
p. 157.

259  
“Is there money in it?”:
Ibid., p. 158.

259  
he began writing a letter:
Ibid., p. 70.

260  
Gerecke returned to Goering's cell:
In writing about these final meetings with Goering, Gerecke's own affidavit to the military's investigators of Goering's suicide is at odds with his later telling of the tale. In later writings, he conflated two separate meetings on the final two nights of Goering's life into one meeting on the final night. In describing it here, I've restored the two-night sequence under the logic that what the chaplain told investigators in the hours immediately after the events was more accurate than what he wrote down from memory years later.

260  
He would watch Gerecke pray:
Persico,
Nuremberg,
p. 420.

260  
more depressed than he had earlier:
Gerecke, “My Assignment.”

260  
“Surrender your heart . . .”:
Report of the Board Proceedings in Case of Hermann Goering (Suicide), Nuremberg, Germany
, October 1946.

260  
to make fun of the creation story:
Gerecke, “My Assignment.”