Victoria, I read PREQUEL this past winter. I just reread the chapters dealing with the 1944 trial and its aftermath. I don't think that's where Ransom got his information. In Maddow's telling, O. John Rogge, the prosecutor in the case, tried to keep the issue of Nazi penetration alive by going on a speaking tour after the war ended. The …
Victoria, I read PREQUEL this past winter. I just reread the chapters dealing with the 1944 trial and its aftermath. I don't think that's where Ransom got his information. In Maddow's telling, O. John Rogge, the prosecutor in the case, tried to keep the issue of Nazi penetration alive by going on a speaking tour after the war ended. The Truman Justice Department pretty clearly shut it down because several current and former members of Congress were implicated in collusion with the pro-Nazi defendants in the case. Rogge was summarily (and dramatically) fired and the court's 13,000-page (!!) transcript kept classified, which means Rogge couldn't quote from it in his book -- until 1961, when indeed the country's attention had moved on to other things.
Maddow notes: "Rogge's dismissal and the dismissal of his official report were big news, and drew a lot of criticism. . . . There were also a raft of calls -- from private citizens, civic organizations, and elected officials -- demanding the release of Rogge's 396-report in full. But Truman stuck to his guns. He kept that report hidden from the American public. Worse than that: he never took the time to say *why* he had done it. He may well have had a noble motivate for this decision, but he didn't ever tell the American public what exactly that might be."
Victoria, I read PREQUEL this past winter. I just reread the chapters dealing with the 1944 trial and its aftermath. I don't think that's where Ransom got his information. In Maddow's telling, O. John Rogge, the prosecutor in the case, tried to keep the issue of Nazi penetration alive by going on a speaking tour after the war ended. The Truman Justice Department pretty clearly shut it down because several current and former members of Congress were implicated in collusion with the pro-Nazi defendants in the case. Rogge was summarily (and dramatically) fired and the court's 13,000-page (!!) transcript kept classified, which means Rogge couldn't quote from it in his book -- until 1961, when indeed the country's attention had moved on to other things.
Maddow notes: "Rogge's dismissal and the dismissal of his official report were big news, and drew a lot of criticism. . . . There were also a raft of calls -- from private citizens, civic organizations, and elected officials -- demanding the release of Rogge's 396-report in full. But Truman stuck to his guns. He kept that report hidden from the American public. Worse than that: he never took the time to say *why* he had done it. He may well have had a noble motivate for this decision, but he didn't ever tell the American public what exactly that might be."