DOENITZ WAS CLEARED
BUT NAVAL COMMANDER SENTENCED VIRTUALLY SAME OFFENCES (Reed. 11 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 16. For virtually the same offence as that for which the Nuremberg tribunal cleared Doenitz, the British court at Hamburg sentenced LieutenantCommander Gustav Moehle to five years’ imprisonment. He was charged with ordering the commanding officers of his Fifth U-boat Flotilla to destroy enemy ships and their crews, says the British United Press Hamburg correspondent. The verdict is expected to cause considerable international legal argument, because it involves the whole question of the authority and .jurisdiction of the Nuremberg tribunal’s findings. The defence pleaded that Moehle acted under Doenitz’s orders. The judge advocate-general, summing up, advised the court to adjudge the case on the facts before it, regardless of what had happened at Nuremberg (where Moehle was a witness).
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 October 1946, Page 7
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