CONDEMNED NAZI SNATCHED BY “RESCUE SQUAD”
(10 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 14. Berthold Heilig, a former Nazi Party official, has escaped from Brunswick prison in the British zone of Germany, where he was awaiting execution on a murder charge, says the British United Press correspondent in Brunswick.
British officials believe that a “rescue squad” which helped him may. have aided in the escape of other Nazis. The prisoner was provided with a 30ft. rope ladder and a motor-cycle with a sidecar was waiting for him. His wife was visited by a member of the "rescue squad” who said that the organisation had plenty of money and had freed Otto Skorzeny, the man who kidnapped Mussolini and who escaped from a Darmstadt internment camp earlier this year.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22820, 15 December 1948, Page 9
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125CONDEMNED NAZI SNATCHED BY “RESCUE SQUAD” Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22820, 15 December 1948, Page 9
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