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5 Of the Particulars and Charge, Guilty EVERETT’S PSYCHIC ENERGY continued to be divided between organizing a credible defense for the seventy-four Malmedy accused and expediting the transportation of his wife and son to Europe, the frustrations produced by both accounting for his growing sense of alienation from the U.S. Army. His admiration for Germans and things German and his tendency to exclude from consciousness what some Germans had done and many others had condoned during the grim period between 1933 and 1945 was much in evidence. Nowhere in the many letters written in the weeks and months during which he was occupied in Dachau is there a reference to the purpose that the camp had served prior to its capture by American forces little more than a year earlier. He seems to have dealt with the riddle of the culture capable of producing both Dachau and Beethoven by simply repressing the former in preference to the latter. In the midst of the prosecution phase of the trial, he wrote enthusiastically to his family of a night in a Munich whose ruins could not dim the glory of German art: Last night, I went to Beethoven Symphony #9. It was beautifully conducted . I never saw any more masterful handling of an orchestra and chorus. The contralto and baratone [sic] were simply magnificent. It started at 6 o’clock and lasted for 2 hours. We all (Col. Dwinell, Mr. Strong, Mr. Walters, Capt. Narvid & wife and myself) were guests of Dr. Pfister, who is atty. on our case and also atty. for Opera Company. Then at about 8:45 or 9:00 p.m. we went to Dr. Pfister ’s house. He had an elderly Bavarian minister there and quite a number of people. . . . His wife had long flowing hair like you, Mary Campbell, except black. They have a 3-year-old daughter who is just as pretty as can be. Dr. and Mrs. Pfister have been married for 10 years. Both are very attractive, as well as Dr. and Mrs. Leiling. . . .1 75 Keeping company with refined and physically attractive German families like the Pfisters and Leilings was, however, inadequate compensation for the prolonged separation from his own wife and children and for the society of other Americans in Germany, most of whom he tended to judge harshly. Everett wrote his son on June 3 that, if the family could not be reunited soon in Europe, he would find a way to return to the United States, a point he reinforced the next day in a letter to his daughter and son-in-law: “I will probably be on my way back in September. . . . Sure wish I had Kil over here. He is so much better than almost all my attys. Boy, only two of them could even make a living in the U.S. I sure will be glad to get out of the inefficiency and rottenness of the ETO.”2 The events of June 7, however, raised Everett’s spirits. Not only did the court grant the defense a ten-day recess, but also he received a phone call from Wiesbaden with the welcome news that Mary and his son had been placed on the list of dependants to be shipped to Europe on or about August 1. Typically, his jubilation was tinged with guilt. “I don’t know how I forced it at this end because I have only been here a couple of months and others have been here 1–2 & 3 years, thus giving them rightfully the preference.”3 He had, in fact, secured the assistance of friends and associates, including the politically well-connected Atlanta attorney Elbert P. Tuttle, later to be an Eisenhower appointee to the federal bench, in advancing the date of his reunion with Mary and young Willis. He continued to be oppressed by the burden of organizing a probably futile defense with a staff in which he had little confidence , although his opinion of the panel of officers hearing the case, including Rosenfeld, seems to have risen in the euphoria of the moment: I have so very much to do tonight and I am already worn out. The prosecution have “rested their case,” and I secured a delay until Monday a week. We sure need this time and it means night and day work for us. . . . I have some plans, but every time I turn around these various lawyers I have start trouble...

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