Five of Hitler’s top aides were today convict-ed of responsibility in the plotting of aggressive war by an American war crimes tribunal. Since the reading of the 833-page Judgment will require four days in court, announcement of sentences is not expected before Thursday.
Baron Ernst von Weiszaecker, Secretary of State in the Nazi Foreign Office and a former Nazi Ambassador to the Vatican, who was the chief of 21 defendants, was found guilty of plotting aggressive war against Czechoslovakia. This is the first since the conviction of 19 top Nazis, including Hermann Goering, that any German been convicted of the charge of planning warfare.
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