Historical lesson of the day: about WAR CRIMES

"The. prostitution of a judicial system

for the

accomplishment of criminal ends

involves an element of evil to the State

which is not found in frank atrocities

which do not sully judicial robes."

"In spite of all that he had done he still bore an unmerited reputation as the last of the German jurists and so Hitler gave him his blessing and 100,000 RM as a parting gift.We are under no misapprehension. Schlegelberger is a tragic character He loved the life of intellect, the work of the scholar. We believe that he loathed the evil that he did, but he sold that intellect and that scholarship to Hitler for a mass of political pottage and for the vain hope of personal security. He is guilty under Counts two and three of the indictment."

The Defendant Schlegelberger

Let's not think about this too much. Let's realize that in the United States of America, any JUDGE, any legal personage who is complict in WAR CRIMES is GUILTY.

Perhaps the most salient moment was in the eleventh programme entitled 'Knowledge or Certainty' when Bronowski visited Auschwitz, at which many members of his family had died.

We have to cure ourselves of the itch for absolute knowledge and power. We have to close the distance between the push-button order and the human act. We have to touch people.

Bronowski published his last poem, on the Watergate scandal, in the Listener magazine (see left margin),

Ascent was to be his last project, as it was completed shortly before he died at East Hampton, Long Island, New York from a heart attack in 1974, at the age of 66. He is buried at Highgate Cemetary, north London.