EXECUTIONS IN GERMANY
BRITISH PROTEST IGNORED / in BERLIN LONDON, November 7. Thirty members of Parliament ha /e sent a telegram to Herr Hitler, expressing horror and disgust at the execution of Robert Stamm, a former Reichstag deputy, and Adolph Rembte, a trade unionist, who were beheaded on November 4. They have made au appeal for the commutation of all death sentences for political activity and the immediate release of Herr Ernst Thaelmann and other prisoners who have not been tried. A spokesman at the German Ministry said: “The executions are exclusively our own affair, in whicn no foreigners have a right to meddle.” Herr Ernst Thaelmann was arrested in 1933 when a _ general campaign against Communists took place in Germany. He has been m prison ever since, awaiting trial, supposedly on a charge of treason. He was born at Hamburg in 1886 and in 1903 he joined the Socialist Party and later the Communists, eventually becoming their leader in Hamburg. He has twice stood for the German Presidency, once m 1925 and again in 1932, when he secured a much-increased vote.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22245, 9 November 1937, Page 11
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