HIDDEN ARTICLES

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

HIDDEN ARTICLES

PRISONERS’ ASSORTED "ARMOURY" \ (Rec. 11.15 a.m.) NUREMBERG, October 18. Telephone wire, shoe laces, torn strips of towelling, pieces of celluloid; screws, nuts, and bolts were secreted by the condemned Nazis and discovered by prison security officers before the executions. The prison staff revealed that Goering, without detection, dismantled part of his earphones in the court room. Technicians later found the earphones defective, and a search of Goering’s cell produced a sharp-edged diaphragm. The officers said all the items of the prisoners’ “armoury” could have been used for suicide. They removed from Goering’s cell the celluloid with which he had framed the picture of his wife. The police, whenever the prisoners returned to their cells, removed shoelaces, braces, and garters, but on three separate occasions found Keitel concealing a safety pin, four nuts, two bolts', and a long sharp piece of metal. Von Neurath tried to conceal a torn towel and several pieces of string, also a screw. Schacht hid three feet of strong cord and 10 paper clips. Jodi hoarded six inches of wire,, several short pencils, and a broken propelling pencil. Doenitz tied several pieces of shoelaces together and hid them. Field-Marshal Milch, one of the witnesses, tried to conceal sft of telephone wire. Ribbentrop had a glass phial, the contents of which were not disclosed by the security officers.