Letters from Nuremberg, by Chris Dodd: on Principles & Values

Chris Dodd: Father led prosecution of 21 Nazi war criminals

The tribunal declared as criminal organizations the Gestapo and SD, the Leadership Corps of the Nazi Party, and the SS. The executions were scheduled in the basement of the Palace of Justice for the overnight hours of October 15-16, 1946.

The defendants who had received sentences of imprisonment were transferred to Spandau prison. As the years passed, the defendants completed their terms and were released. The last prisoner was Rudolph Hess, who in 1987, committed suicide. With his death, Hitler's tyranny ended. Ended, too, was the contribution of Thomas J. Dodd to the proof of the crimes of the Hitler regime in the long hours which he devoted to this cause of humanity at Nuremberg, Germany--the greatest achievement of his life.