FOUND HIDING
GERMANS WANTED BY ALLIES ONE TAKES POISON (Rec. noon.) LISBON, Jan. 14. Dr Karl Wissmann, former German Press attache at Lisbon, who has been sought by the police since he escaped from detention camp in November, 1945, took poison w’hen the police went to arrest him to-day. He uttered: “ Heil Hitler ” before he died. * Hiding in the same house as Dr Wissmann the police also found Adolf Nassenstein, classified by the Allies as a dangerous Gestapo agent, says Reuter’s Lisbon correspondent. Nassenstein tried to shoot himself, hut the weapon misfired.
Wissmann and Nassenstein were in the group of wanted Germans who w r ere to have been repatriated after the war ended, but they failed to appear afid report. Other Germans who evaded the police at the same time are still free.
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Evening Star, Issue 26000, 15 January 1947, Page 7
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134FOUND HIDING Evening Star, Issue 26000, 15 January 1947, Page 7
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