BELSEN TRIAL

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24677, 21 September 1945, Page 5

BELSEN TRIAL

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GERMANS CASE FOR PROSECUTION CONTINUED LONDON, September Is. Germans lining the streets of Luneburg as the Belsen guards were driven , from the court to the prison hissed and booed Josef Kramer, the former commandant of the camp. “Schweinhund. shouted one elderly woman. It was the first open demonstration of the German public’s disgust since the beginning of the trial. . ... • Brigadier H. L. Glyn Hughes, ViceDeputy Director of Medical Services in the* British Army of the Hhme, reexamined by the prosecution on conditions in Belsen, said it was inevitable that people receiving the camp food, which was under 800 eventually died. Internees, even after their release, were obviously frightened to ' answer questions in the presence of , members of the S.S. . . When Dr. Klein told Brigadier Hughes that he had only been there lor two days, he appealed to the internees around him, but they would not answer. When Klein’s back was turned the internees refuted Kleins statement ~ . . , Brigadier Hughes said he had .no . serious difficulty in controlling the internees when they were freed. There was not a single casualty from British bulleto. . , .. m Colonel James Johnson, R.A.M.C., who entered Belsen on April 17, in gn affidavit describing the “atrocious, horrible, and utterly inhuman conditions,” said that 13,099 died after the British entry, the majority in a matter of days. He did not know the total deaths before the British arrived, because the Germans destroyed the records. A large percentage of those who survived would be permanently in- , jured in mental and physical health, and tuberculosis would be rife.

TRIAL OF NAZI LEADERS CHANGE OF VENUE CAUSES DELAY (Special Correspondent N.Z.PA.) (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 20. “A sudden disagreement between the United Nations on where Gocring, Ribbentrop, arid the other 22 major war criminals are to be tried has again postponed the trial,” says the Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Express.” . . “The new delay- Iras been caused by the Russians, who had demanded that the trial should begin in Berlin and then, if necessary, moved to Nuremberg. They made this demand recently after the Americans,’ in whose zone the trial was to take place, had made all preparations for it at Nuremberg. “The British, American, and French representatives refused at first to agree, but finally gave way. The Americans felt bitter about all their wasted labour at Nuremberg. If the Russians wanted the trials in Berlin, they said, they could make the arrangements themselves—find a suitable courtroom and accommodation for the judges, counsel, witnesses, accused, and newspaper men in blitzed Berlin and provide the intricate system of. interpreting the proceedings in four languages. The Russians so far have made no reply.”