When Hermann Göring and other leading Nazis entered a grand Nuremberg courtroom 80 years ago, watching eight yards away was Belfast man Seaghan Maynes. Not yet 30, Maynes had moved from Belfast to London and joined Reuters the previous year, travelling through Europe with Gen George S Patton’s Third US Army. He witnessed the Normandy landings and, alongside Ernest Hemingway, the liberation of Paris – and the Buchenwald concentration camp. On November 20th, 1945, though, Maynes was in courtroom 600 for what was billed as the trial of the century. An international military tribunal was, for the first time, placing...
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