GERMAN CRIMINALS
NAMED IN BROADCAST
RUGBY, January 25,
The names of notorious German criminals were given by Colonel Britton in a broadcast to the European V army.
The first was yon Falkenhausen, military commander in Belgium and Northern France, who pretends to be a considerate general of the old school, but signs scores of death warrants and allows his assistants to direct the looting and starving of the Belgian nation, and does not interfere with the crimes of the Gestapo.
Secondly there is Kanstein, leader of the S.S. in Denmark and German com' missioner for Danish home policy. He was chief of the Gestapo when the infamous pogrom occurred in Germany in 1938 5 and Colonel Britton prophesied that he will meet a violent death.
Third is Rediess, commander of all the police forces in Norway, who murdered the Norwegian trade union leaders, Hansteen and Wichstroem.
Fourthly there is Howorka, student leader of Sudetenland and S.S. chief company commander ( in Czechoslovakia, who led the Nazi students of Prague University in 1939. Many Czech students owe torture and imprisonment in concentration camps to him.
Finally, Colonel Britton named Globoenick, commander of S.S. police in the Lubin district, Poland, who has led a life of violence and crime for 20 years in Austria. —8.0. W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 22, 27 January 1942, Page 4
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213GERMAN CRIMINALS Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 22, 27 January 1942, Page 4
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