Robert H. Jackson: Closing Statement before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany

Glossary

• apex height, highest point
• Gestapo the secret police of Nazi Germany
• Goering, Keitel, Raeder, Frick, and Funk Hermann Goering, Nazi leader and commander of the German air force; Wilhelm Keitel, commander of the German military; Erich Raeder, commander of the German navy; Wilhelm Frick, German minister of the interior; Walther Funk, German minister for economic affairs
• Panzer a German tank; more generally, German armored military forces
• perfidious treacherous, deceptive
• Praetorian Guard the specially selected guards of the ancient Roman emperors
• 6 million people reference to Europe’s Jews who were killed in the Nazi Holocaust
• Torquemada Tomás de Torquemada (1420–1498), a notorious leader of the Catholic Church’s Inquisition