PURGE IN GERMANY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 2, 4 January 1943, Page 5

PURGE IN GERMANY

POSSIBLE LEADERS OF

REVOLT

LONDON, January 2.. — The Allied landing in North, Africa „■ and the German defeats in Russia have resulted in a Gestapo purge in- " side Germany, with' the object of eradicating all potential oppositioivin the !> Greater Reich, reports "The Times" correspondent on the German frontier. .'■■».•■ The immediate victims have been those whose past experience, nature, ability or wide popularity might - qualify them as possible leaders of a , revolt. The Gestapo has always kept a list of persons whose latent Opposition to the Nazis is feared and whose removal would be imperative should the regime be imperilled. Thousands, of such persons have been arrested since October. More than. 1000 persons of higher social and intellectual : • standing have been arrested in Munt.,, ich alone. , ' . ~ Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria is reported to be confined at Dachau. Barons yon Mumm and yon Schelina, well-known German diplomats,* have also been arrested. Yon Mumm never concealed his disdain for Nags. Yon Scheliha, a member of a. wealthy . aristocratic Silesian landrowning <iamily, was accused of being pro-Polish because he helped Polish families whom he had long known, as their estates adjoined his. ■• . ■ m "■ Regularly, twice a week execution*;,, by shooting and decapitation occur ,_ in the courtyard of Rosauer Laenge barracks, Vienna. • ' '