EXECUTION DEFERRED
NURSE AT RAVENSBRUCK NATIONALITY QUESTIONED (10 8 m.) HAMBURG, May 2. As the hanging of the first batch of prisoners who were condemned for atrocities in Ravensbruck women’s concentration camp was about to begin, a stay of execution was granted to the attractive 26-ycar-old nurse, Vera Salvequart. She was accused of giving lethal injections to patients. Salvequart claimed Czech citizenship. ■ It is understood that the stay of execution was granted at the request of the Czechoslovakian Government.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22320, 3 May 1947, Page 5
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79EXECUTION DEFERRED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22320, 3 May 1947, Page 5
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