PROPOSED TRIAL OF GERMAN MARSHALS
LONDON, August 28
The British Government’s decision to put on trial as alleged war criminals, the German Marshals, Von Brauchitsch, Von Runstedt and Von Manstein, and General Strauss, lias met with adverse comment.
The Times ’ says these German Army leaders have been held far too Long in captivity without trial. 'Technical difficulties, if there . were .any, may explain such dilatory 'methods; they cannot excuse thorn. The Manchester Guardian said it would be lamentable if this should prove to be a case where the Foreign Office, for some tortuous diplomatic reason, had overridden the rational, humane instincts of the British Army, of the British authorities Germany, and of the ordinary British people. The Daily Telegraph reported that the German Generals will be defended by German counsel of their own choice, or by German counsel allocated to them by the British authorities, who will give counsel time to prepare the Generals’ defences. The officers concerned are being held in the British zone. They will be given the status of civilians so that they are no longer prisoners of war, and then told that it is proposed to bring them to trial.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 August 1948, Page 6
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