An advocate can be confronted with few more formidable tasks than to select his closing arguments where there is great disparity between his appropriate time and his available material. In eight months- a short time as state trials go- we have introduced evidence which embraces as vast and varied a panorama of events as has ever been compressed within the framework of a litigation. It is impossible in summation to do more than outline with bold strokes the vitals of this trial’s made and melancholy record, which will live as the historical text of the Twentieth Century’s shame and depravity.
Publication Date
December 26, 1946
Citation
(Nuremberg, July 26, 1946), 20 Temp. L.Q. 85 (1946), 12 Vital Speeches 710 (1946); Case & Com., Jan.-Feb., 1947, p. 3 (condensed).
Collections
An advocate can be confronted with few more formidable tasks than to select his closing arguments where there is great disparity between his appropriate time and his available material. In eight months- a short time as state trials go- we have introduced evidence which embraces as vast and varied a panorama of events as has ever been compressed within the framework of a litigation. It is impossible in summation to do more than outline with bold strokes the vitals of this trial's made and melancholy record, which will live as the historical text of the Twentieth Century's shame and depravity.
