NUREMBERG EXECUTIONS

Evening Star, Issue 25927, 19 October 1946, Page 7

NUREMBERG EXECUTIONS

PUBLICATION OF LAST WORDS STRONGLY DENOUNCED BY RUSSIAN PAPER LONDON, Oct. 18. It may safelv be assumed that the pencilled notes" left by Goering, like the letters left by (Ribbentrop at the time of his arrest, will not be published, says the Nuremberg correspondent of ‘ The Times.’ That they were written by Goering is certain. The note addressed to the prison governor, Colonel Andrus, may well have described the method whereby the poison came into his possession—which would not, of course, be accepted at its face value. It would also be in keeping with Goering’s character if he left some political valediction to the German people—and there are those whp are already beginning to doubt the wisdom of having disclosed Hitler’s so-called testament. _ The Russian-controlled Berlin newspaper ‘ Night Express ’ last night strongly denounced “ the sentimental section Of the world Press which reported those pious last words ” of the hanged Nazi leaders, saying six years of war were needed to destroy the Third Reich and now a section of the world Press was trying to build up a legend for the Fourth Reich. These reports were an insult to moral intellect, and there was danger in their effect on the German people. The paper added: “ When the German people read of the ‘manly fashion ’ in which the condemned men met their deaths and how their last words dealt only with piety and good wishes for Germany—well, the legend is complete. The world convicted these men as criminals. What they said in the shadow of death is in direct contrast to their previous conduct.”