But, the verdict was not the end of the trial. It was more of a new beginning.
Pursuant to procedure, an in-house review was undertaken by the American Occupation Army in Germany; the trial was carefully examined by a deputy judge.
Colonel Everett, head of the Germans' defense team, was convinced that a fair trial had not been granted to the defendants: in addition to alleged mock trials, he claimed that "to extort confessions. U.S. prosecution teams 'had kept the German defendants in dark, solitary confinement at near starvation rations up to six months; had applied various forms of torture, including driving burning matches under the prisoners' fingernails; had administered beatings which resulted in broken jaws and arms and permanently injured testicles.' "
These allegations of torture were later proved to be false.
--GreGen
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