CAUGHT IN JAPAN
THE "BUTCHER OF WARSAW"
LONDON, September 6
A correspondent of the Mutual Broadcasting System at Yokohama reports that five Americans captured Joseph Kurt Meisinger, the "butcher of Warsaw."
The Americans journeyed 65 miles into unoccupied Japan to a hotel where Meisinger was living and sent him a note suggesting that it would be better for him to surrender to the Americans than to the Russians. Shortly afterwards Meisinger gave himself up. He said he would never have allowed the Russians to capture him. Meisinger disclaimed responsibility for killing 100,000 Jews in Warsaw in 1939-41, and said he was acting only as a soldier carrying out orders. The "Daily Mail's" correspondent in Japan says that Meisinger came to Japan in 1941 to organise branches of the Gestapo in the Far East. The Russians are reported to want him as a war criminal.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 60, 8 September 1945, Page 8
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