NUREMBURG: German war criminals, up at the crack of dawn this morning [Oct 20], looked like students cramming for finals as they pored over copies of the indictment handed to them late last night.

“The most studious groups I ever saw,” a guard observed. As there are no electric lights in their cells, they carried copies of the indictment to breakfast and read as they ate. Goering alone seemed to have a completely detached attitude as he stretched out on his bed apparently in deep thought. Asked if he had made any decisions regarding his counsel, he replied: “I will think it over a while.” Robert Ley protested against the indictment as “retractive”. He said: “I do not see how you can make a law after things are done.” … Hjalmar Schacht haughtily shouted in English: “I have nothing to say.”

[Meanwhile, as reported from Caracas,] More than 50 persons were reported killed and 100 wounded in the revolt staged by young army officers which unseated President Isaias Medina Angarita, and apparently left the revolutionaries in control of Venezuela. ….

Published in Dawn, October 21st, 2020