IN TIGER'S SKIN
BUT NO TIGER A COMEDY OF ERRORS (Rec. 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 19. A burly six-foot Rhinelander, Oscar Schmitz, one of the JBelsen atrocity trial defendants, caused amusement in the court at Luneberg when he detailed the comedy of errors leading to his arrest as a member of the S.S. Schmitz said that early in the war he refused to join the Nazi Party and evaded conscription, as a result of which'he was several times imprisoned. He was an inmate of Belsen, dressed in a striped uniform, at the time of the liberation. The Russians the night after the liberation began to beat up the German prisoners. To escape he jumped from a window 25 feet to the ground, clad in his underclothing. He reported to the British guard, who put him in a room with four members of the S.S. There he found a spare S.S. uniform, which he donned. From then on he was a member of the S.S. No one would listen to his story.
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Evening Star, Issue 25619, 20 October 1945, Page 7
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171IN TIGER'S SKIN Evening Star, Issue 25619, 20 October 1945, Page 7
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