11/16/2015
From Elizabeth Musmanno:
"Tonight is an historical evening for my family: The Musmanno's.
In these days of global unrest, I am proud to look back tonight and witness a family member who ensured criminals-- who killed the helpless and defenseless--- were prosecuted and condemned.
This evening at 8 o'clock EST on the Smithsonian Channel, Admiral Michael A. Musmanno's films will air for the first time in the United States.
Justice Musmanno was the Chief Justice at the Nuremburg Trial prosecuting the Einsatzgruppen paramilitary killing squads that killed over 2 million people. He sentenced fourteen to death and two to life sentences.
He went on to preside as a judge at two other Nuremberg trials and, in addition, testified in 1961 against Adolf Eichmann naming Eichmann as “the” man in the N**i apparatus.
After the trials, Musmanno spent more than two years tracking down witnesses to prove Hi**er was dead, hoping to thwart rumors spawned when Soviet dictator Josef Stalin claimed Hi**er had escaped his underground Berlin bunker.
“There can be no doubt that Adolf Hi**er, the fuhrer of Germany, the master criminal of the world, the greatest gangster who ever disgraced the human race, is dead,” Musmanno says, concluding the interviews."
Tom White, curator of special collections at Duquesne University's Gumberg Library, pulls a box out of a metal cabinet. "I thought this might interest you," he says. Inside is a neatly folded, off-white piece of fabric with the monogram "A.H." stitched in one corner. This was Adolf Hi**er's pillowca…
