NAZI PEOPLE’S COURT

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 September 1944, Page 6

NAZI PEOPLE’S COURT

TRAVESTIES*OF JUSTICE

LONDON, September 13. “The trials in the Nazi Party People’s Courts are travesties of justice,” says the Swiss newspaper. “Journal de Geneve, ’ quoting an eyewitness. “Counsel are afraid to appear for lhe defence -and tew of the accused are acquitted. Most of the accused are denounced by women. ‘Since lhe Berlin theatres and cinemas have been closed the People's Court trials have become public spectacles. When adjourning his court Judge Freisler told the public in the galleries: T regret I cannot offer you any more to-day.’. “The eye-witness said that a Berlin man who said Hitler was crazy was sentenced to death. z\ girl typist was sentenced to death for having copied passages from Hitler’s earlier speeches which are at variance with present-day events. A clergyman who said ‘Churchill is a great politician’ was denounced by a soldier and gaoled for six months for ‘defeaiisi utterances.' Members of a group who had discussed resistance’ against th? Russians ‘ii they occupy Germany' were sentenced to death. The Judge held that this was a defeatist attitude.”

AMTI-HITLER PLOT

(Recd. 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 13

The Berlin radio stated that a deserter named Lindemann, who was wanted in connection with the events of July 20. was captured in Berlin. It added that a civil engineer who discovered Lindemann will receive the award of £42.000 offered for Lindemann's capture. Lindemann is believed to be the General who commanded the German troops in the Baltic. The events of July 20 refer to lhe bomb plot against Hitler.