NAZI THOROUGHNESS
TRAINING OF SABOTEURS
CHICAGO, October 27. How eight Nazi saboteurs were carefully trained in Germany to destroy American war plants and railway utilities was described by Ernest Burger at the trial of six Chicagoans on charges of treason and aiding saboteurs. Burger and another were gaoled and the remainder executed.
The first Government witness, Burger, said that three connecting railways of the Alcoa aluminium plants were specially earmarked for. sabotage. He and others were trained in Germany in the handling of explosives and incendiaries, the buying, mixing, and igniting of chemicals, the making of timing devices and detonators from pen and pencil sets and watches, and in practising landings from rubber boats on a lake. They toured the German industrial areas, learning how to sabotage transformers, locomotives, and cars, and were even given a forged draft of social security cards for establishing false identification in the United States.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 105, 30 October 1942, Page 5
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