PEOPLE’S COURTS IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA
713 SENTENCED TO DEATH (Rec. 7 p.m.) PRAGUE, June 8. Dr. Prokop Drtina, the Czech Minister of Justice, tola Parliament that the People’s Courts of Bohemia and Moravia had sentenced to death 713 Germans and Czechs in the post-war clean-up of traitors and collaborators. Four hundred and forty-three Germans and 293 Czechs had been sentenced to imprisonment for life. The courts in all sentenced nearly 20.000 people to varying terms of imprisonment, totalling 206,334 years.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25206, 10 June 1947, Page 7
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