Nuremberg is the Nazi show case (50,000 chose of the 8 million hitler youth)
Stood 40-50 feet from podium and made eye contact with Hitler.
Felt invincible after encounter

In 1940 deportations started 
Thought it was justified

best friend Heinz was Jewish

Started fighting Russia in (1941 surrendered in 1943)

Everything was run by the Hitler youth.

Women taught how to shoot guns.

• ether win or die

When he took a few steps toward the table, he seemed to limp. I guessed it was an injury from the bomb explosion.

As he lifted his right arm, we roared, Heil, mein Führer!" and a smile flickered across his face. When he began to speak, his pale blue eyes seemed to bore directly into mine. He talked no more than five minutes and what he said was meant for us, the Hitler Youth. "We shall destroy the enemy at the very gates to the Fatherland," he promised. "This is where we are going to turn the tide and split the allies once and for all."

As we moved toward the door to leave, Hitler held out his arm and said a few special words to each of us. When I gripped his hand, it felt warm and sweaty, with little firm-ness. He glanced at the triangle on my upper left arm.

"You are from the Moselland, my boy," he said. "I know I can depend on you."

"Jawohl, mein Führer," I whispered. I wiped my eyes as I walked down the steps. I knew that nothing in the rest of my life would ever equal this day.

 

German soldiers ran for the hills.

With his Aunt Tilly. She burned his uniform.

Dozens of Sherman tanks appeared down the road.

Buried his Luftwaffte uniform in the chicken coop.

The tanks ignored Alfons. They assumed he was a child.

Learning English saved his life.

Anyone caught on the street from 6 p.m. To 7 am would be shot on the spot.

Told his he was apart of the Luftwaffe. 

The officers fed and cared for Alfons to translate.

Remembers Hans Leiwitz words “Take like if you’re given the choice.”

Hans was shot as a traitor.

As ordered, Alfons had turned himself in when the next unit of American troops entered Wittlich. Again his knowledge of English had saved him; he was put to work in a hospital, translating orders from the American officers to the German workers. 

Conditions in the hospital were good.

After losing his job, Alfons spent his days helping his grandmother and aunts clear rubble from the family farm.

Uncle Hornung kept them alive by bringing potatoes and some lard from his farm a few miles away. But since he wasn't allowed to take his horses out of his own village, the plowing of the fields had to be done by hand.

“Rubble women” - women and sometimes children who rebuilt their homes.

Alfons couldn’t leave town.

General Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of all Allied troops, led American liberators into Ohrdruf, the first German camp to be liberated. What he saw shocked him so much that he sent hurried messages to London and the United States, asking journalists and government leaders to come at once to see for themselves. His wife and the towns mayor were so disturbed, they hung themselves.

"I saw and photographed the piles of naked, lifeless bod-ies, the human skeletons in furnaces, the living skeletons who would die the next day because they had had to wait too long for help, the pieces of tattooed skin for lampshades. Using the camera was almost a relief. It put a barrier between myself and the horror in front of me." - Margaret Bourke-White. (Photographer and journalist)

Alfons was arrested by French soldiers.

Alfons was put to hard labor.

Highest ranking Nazi on trail was Hermann Göring, Hitlers second in command. Took 40 Narcotic Pills a day.

Rudolph Hess - Helped write Mein Kampf

Julius Streicher - Hitlers good friend owned Der Stürmer.

Hans Frank - Governor of Nazi occupied Poland.

Baldur Von Schirach - First leader of the Hitler Youth and later the most powerful Nazi in Austria. Born in 1907. Governed Vienna.

“It is my guilt that I trained them for a man who became a murderer a million times over.” Baldur Von Schirach.

August 31st, 1946 the defendants were given one last chance to speak.

"I wish to state, with a clear conscience to our German youth, that they are completely innocent of the atrocities of the Hitler regime.... They know nothing of the many acts of horror that have been committed by Germans by creating an atmosphere that is free of hatred and vengeance." Baldur Von Schirach.

On October 1, 1946, the day the verdicts were to be read.

International Military Court sentenced Göring to death by hanging. He committed suicide by cyanide capsules in his cell.

All Nazi bodies were sent to Dachau, burned in the same ovens as their Jewish victims.

Hans Frank and Julius Streicher along with 8 other top Nazis were sentenced to death by hanging.

Rudolph was sentenced to life in prison until 1987 when he committed suicide.