NAZI OFFENDERS
NEW PENALTY LAW TWO MILLION AFFECTED (Special Correspondent.) (11 a .m.) LONDON, March 6. The American authorities have announced that nearly 2,000,000 Nazis, largely industrialists and financiers, are to be'punished by the Germans themselves states the Daily Telegraph’s correspondent in Berlin. The plan'provides for sentences of up to 10 years for major offenders. Lieutenant-General Clay, deputy commander-in-chief of the American zone, said that this means that the United States forces will remain in Germany for at least that period. The four conditions to be fulfilled under the new law are:— 1 The registration of Germans over 18.’ 2. The grouping of the Germans concerned into major offenders, offenders, lesser offenders, followers, and those exonerated. 3. The punishment of the guilty, with from, two to 10 years’ internment, with labour camps for the major offenders. 4. The establishment of German appeal tribunals. Major offenders will include those who participated in outrages and all who derived substantial economic advantages from Nazism.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21964, 7 March 1946, Page 7
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