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HANGINGS OF NAZI
CRIMINALS START
AFTER MIDNIGHT
NUREMBERG, Tuesday.
Unofficial sources state the hangings of the condemned
men will begin in the prison at one minute after
midnight local time to-morrow instead of at dawn as is
customary, and that the sentences will be carried out in
less than three hours.
This will mean more than one scaffold and more than
one hangman.
Reuters says Goering told the doctor
"I have no fear and to the end
will show dignity."
On the last day, ten of the ll condemned
men took part in bible reading,
but atheist Rosenburg refused
religious consolation.
All the condemned men yesterday
were asked whether they believed,
Hitler was dead, and all said yes.
The correspondent says that armoured
cars cruised around the
prison throughout yesterday. The authorities
are keeping secret all details
of the executions. Eight news-
papermen who will witness the hang-
ings will sleep in Nuremberg prison
to-night and will not be released in
till after the executions.
According to the American News
Service, Dr. Schacht, who was acquitted
at Nuremberg, has sent a
letter to General Clay, requesting his
release from the Stuttgart prison,
and claiming that his arrest was illegal.
Counsel for Bormann at the
Nuremberg trial sought the movement
of Schacht to Nuremberg where
he would defend him before the De-
nazification Court.
The former United States Minister
to Albania and Siam (Mr. Hugh
Grant has sent a telegram to President
Truman, urging him to "stop
the ll murders which are about to
be committed upon the vanquished at
Nuremberg. However much we may
condemn these men they, like Roosevelt
and Churchill, were the leaders
of their respective countries."
Mr. Grant expressed the opinion
that the executions will surely prove
a boomerang" until a world organisation
is established and nations
agree on definite laws condemning
military aggression.
The former commander of the German
forces in Italy (General Kesselring)
under escort, was taken aboard
an airliner at an airport near London
and flown to Germany.
A Four Power directive to unify
the treatment of war criminals,
Nazis, militarists and other potentially
dangerous Germans in the four
zones, which the Allied Control Council's
Co-ordinating Committee adopted,
was described by a high British
military official as a formidable gesture
of Allied security towards the
Germans," says the Berlin correspondent
of Router.
Commanders in each zone will issue
their own instructions and invite each
other's criticisms.
All Germans whose past is bound
up with the Nazis or the militarists
are, under the new directive, liable
to examination. The directive divides
them into five categories and nomin-
ates the penalties to which each category
is liable. It also provides that
former Nazis in higher categories
can be graded down for good behaviour
and thus eventually be ex-
onerated.
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