GERMAN EXECUTIONS

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 29, 29 October 1934, Page 9

GERMAN EXECUTIONS

Estimate of Total Now Reaches 1000 REVOLT ON JUNE 30 Possibility of “Unofficial” Sentences FURTHER REVELATIONS By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received October 28. 5.5 p.m.) London. October 27. The ■'Manchester Guardian’s” special correspondent, pointing out that additional revelations now bring the estimate of German executions in connection with the disturbances on June 30 to 1000, explains that possibly Herr Hitler does not know how many General Goering ordered to be executed, nor does General Goering know how many Herr Hitler ordered to be put to death, while Herr Himmler, chief of the secret police, also probably carried out "unofficial” executions. It is now known that 1-1 men were secretly executed at Liehtenburg. Saxony. in the precincts of an old castle used as a concentration camp, where the prisoners were ordered to dig near a corner of the vegetable garden a trench 23 feet long and five feet deep to which prisoners were motored from Berlin on two nights and marched separately, blindfolded, to the trench. Some begged for mercy and others asked for permission to write to their families. They only received in answer: “We must put an end to dogs like you,’ after which they were shot with revolvers in the neck and buried in the trench.

The identity of the victims was not disclosed, but apparently persons of distinction were sent to Liehtenburg in order to be killed with special privacy. Liehtenburg is also notorious as a great centre of German-military preparations, while the neighbourhood includes one of the new subterranean aerodromes being constructed in various parts of Germany.