GESTAPO'S POWERS
NEW LAW FOR DEATH WITHOUT TRIAL
(Received July 30, 9 a.m.)
LONDON, July 29
The Gestapo (Nazi secret police) has secured power under a new law to condemn non-Germans to death by hanging without trial. Himmler's first victim was a Polish worker in Westphalia, who was hanged on July 28 on an allegation that he associated with a German woman.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 26, 30 July 1940, Page 7
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