1 In the vast majority of cases there was no trial, no report of the arrest.
2 At their second trial they confessed to all their old crimes over again, with a whole string of new ones.
3 Before they exposed their victims to public trial, they deliberately set themselves to destroy their dignity.
4 The point was that at both trials all three men had confessed that on that date they had been on Eurasian soil.
5 That was to be expected, since it was unusual for political offenders to be put on trial or even publicly denounced.
6 At nineteen he had designed a hand-grenade which had been adopted by the Ministry of Peace and which, at its first trial, had killed thirty-one Eurasian prisoners in one burst.
7 He would talk with a disagreeable gloating satisfaction of helicopter raids on enemy villages, and trials and confessions of thought-criminals, the executions in the cellars of the Ministry of Love.
8 Goldstein had fled and was hiding no one knew where, and of the others, a few had simply disappeared, while the majority had been executed after spectacular public trials at which they made confession of their crimes.
9 Very occasionally some person whom you had believed dead long since would make a ghostly reappearance at some public trial where he would implicate hundreds of others by his testimony before vanishing, this time for ever.
10 The great purges involving thousands of people, with public trials of traitors and thought-criminals who made abject confession of their crimes and were afterwards executed, were special show-pieces not occurring oftener than once in a couple of years.