GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES
VERDICT AGAINST KESSELRING
DEATH SENTENCE PASSED (Rec. 12.10 a.m.) LONDON, May 6. Field-Marshal Kesselring was found guilty of war crimes after a trial lasting nearly three months, says Reuter’s correspondent in Venice. The Court sentenced Kesselring to death by shooting. The sentence is subject to confirmation by the commander
of the British forces in the Central Mediterranean, General Sir John Harding, who has not yet confirmed the death sentences passed on Kesselring’s subordinates, Colonel-General von Mackensen and Lieutenant-Gene-ral Kurt Maeltzer, in November. 1946. Kesselring was found guilty first of having been concerned in the killing m a reprisal of 336 Italians in the Ardeatine caves near Rome on March 23, 1944, and second of having ordered his troops to carry out reprisals by killing Italian citizens between June and August, 1944. The Judge Advocate of the British Military Court before which Kesselring was tried invited accused’s counsel, Dr. Laternser, to make a plea in mitigation. Counsel replied that* Kesselring defended the ideas for which he stood, not his person. He had expressly asked counsel not to address the Court any further.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25177, 7 May 1947, Page 7
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