WAR CRIMINALS

Evening Star, Issue 24103, 26 January 1942, Page 4

WAR CRIMINALS

. COLONEL BRITTON'S LIST (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 24. Among the names of notorious German criminals given by Colonel Britton in a broadcast to the European “ V ” army, the first was von Falkenhauseh, military commander in Belgium and Northern France, who pretends to be a considei’ate general of the old school, but signs scores of death warrants, allows his assistants to direct the looting and starving of the Belgian nation, and does not interfere with the crimes of the Gestapo. The second was Kanstein, leader of the S.S. in Denmark and German Commissioner for Danish homo policy. He was chief of the Gestapo when the infamous pogrom occurred in Germany in 1936, and Colonel Britton prophesied that he would meet a violent death. The third was Redicss, commander of all the police forces in Norway, who murdered the Norwegian_ trade union leaders, Hansteen and Wichstroem. The fourth was Howorka, student leader of Sudetenland and S.S., chief company commander in Czecho-Slo-vakia, who led the Nazi students of Prague University in 1939. Many Czech students owe their torture and imprisonment in concentration camps to Howorka. Finally Colonel Britton -named Globoenick. commander of the, A.A. and S.S. police in the Lublin district of Poland, who had led a life of violence and crime for 20 years in Austria, and was even dismissed from the gauleitung of Vienna for scandalous conduct.