EIGHT EUROPEAN SPIES RECEIVE PRISON SENTENCES
(Rec. 1 p.m.) BERLIN, March 14. Eight Europeans were found guilty of espionage by the United States Military Commission and were sentenced to prison for terms ranging from one to 18 years, says the Associated Press Munich correspondent. Robert Kruse, aged 44, a German, and Adolf Frank were each sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment; Gertie Doerre, aged 26, a Sudeten German, 12 years; Edith Dittrich, aged 25, a Czech, nine years) Franz Baier, aged 35, a German, eight years; Marie Hablik, aged 37, a Sudeten German, seven years; Walter Friedrich, a Sudeten German, eight years; Egon Eichter, aged 23, one year. Doerre said beatings and threats of execution were used to force her to work for the Czech intelligence service. She admitted she worked for the Gestapo in 1942 and for the German security police in occupied Norway. The other defendants also declared they had been compelled by threats to work for the Czech intelligence and to spy on United States forces.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 March 1949, Page 5
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