Memories

Europeans, like the rest of humanity, would like to forget the bad past and look forward to a good future. But they have too much to remember. At Nuernberg last week, these grisly tales welled up:

P: Witness Alfred Balachowsky, physician, remembered thousands of men & women whose livers were removed, who were shot with poisoned bullets or infected with typhus bacilli by German scientists. Said French Prosecutor Charles Dubost: "German medical literature is very rich in experiments on adults who died suddenly between the hours of 5 and 6 a.m."

P: Witness Jacob Werber, German, remembered how he was "locked into a dog's cage, a chain was put around his neck, food was handed him in a bowl, and he had to eat like a dog."

P: Witness Franc,ois Boix, French, remembered a special ceremony at Mauthausen concentration camp at which a prisoner was hanged while a gypsy orchestra, in mocking counterpoint to death, fiddled through the Beer Barrel Polka and J'attendrai.

P: Witness Hans Cappelen, Norwegian, remembered how "they put a screw device on my leg so that all the meat started to loosen from the bones." (At this point. Defendant Joachim von Ribbentrop winced, tore off his earphones, hung his head.) Qappelen continued, telling of a trip across Germany to Dachau. Said he: "We were five days without food and water in open cars in sub-zero weather. About half the trainload was dead by the last day. ... In Munich, 100 of us prisoners, all looking like corpses, were marched through the streets. . . ."

Then he added another memory--one that was hardest to forget and forgive. Said he: "The people could see us. There was no sympathy."

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