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NAZI PRISON CAMP COMMANDANT RESPONSIBLE FOR SHOOTING OF R.A.F. OFFICERS LONDON, August 13. Colonel von Lindleiner, allegedly the commandant of Stalag Luft 111., near Breslau, where the mass shooting .of 50 R.A.F. officers took place, and Ins chief lieutenant, S.S. Oberfuhrer Behrens, were delivered to the London reception camp for war criminals, reports the ‘ Daily Express.’ Repatriated officers gave the Government the names of the commandant and others responsible for the shooting. . , At the time of the shooting, Mr Anthony Eden, who was then Foreign Secretary, said that the foul criminals who were responsible would be tracked down and brought to exemplary justice.
Von Papen, von Ribbentrop, Goering, Jodi, Keitel, (Robert Ley, Julius Streicher, and Alfred Rosenberg were flown to Nuremburg on Saturday from an army interrogation centre at Luxemburg, and were placed in Nuremburg gaol, ready to face trial as war criminals.
Dr Geroe, the Austrian Minister of Justice, said that Herr Guido Schmidt, “ the man who, as Foreign Minister iiisl936, sold Austria to Hitler,” is still free in .his lakeside villa in the American occupied zone. . Schmidt is living on the money ho made as president of tlio Skoda works at Pilseu’. the job with which Hitler rewarded him.
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Evening Star, Issue 25563, 15 August 1945, Page 4
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