FALLEN NAZIS

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 July 1945, Page 5

FALLEN NAZIS

THE ROBBERS’ RETREAT LONDON, July 22. The dreaded figures of the Nazi hierarchy—Ribbentrop, Goering; Keitel, Doenitz, Streicher, Ley, and Frank—stripped of their plumage, bear little resemblance to the supermen who tried to rule the world as they await trial in the former fashionable Palace Hotel in Mondorf, Luxemburg, says an Associated Press correspondent. Ribbentrop, the Reich’s suave Foreign Minister, who drifted through the most elite diplomatic salons, now occupies a bare single room on the fourth floor of the hotel, where he sleeps on a straw mattress. One razor blade is issued to him when he wants to shave, but it is taken away as soon as it is used. Ribbentrop is responsible for tidying up his own room, and officers report that he is slovenly in that respect. Goering occupies a room across the hall from Ribbentrop. He is unqer treatment in an effort to break him of the drug habit. Keitel is recorded on the prison books as a most exemplary internee.. His quarters arc spick and span. Dr Funk, the former president ol the Reich Bank, who is among the 52 Nazi leaders detained, lectured his companions on the importance ol paper currency, describing its innovation as one of the world’s most significant inventions. The aristocratic Nazi prisoners refuse to eat with Streicher, and also shun Ley ana Frank because they have certain personal eccentricities. The ,glass nas been removed from all the hotel windows and replaced by an unbreakable substitute as a precaution against suicide.