Americans Admit Attempts To Wring Nazi Confessions
(II a.m.) MUNICH, Sept. 5. Four Americans who helped to convict 73 S.S. troopers of the massacre of Americans at Malmedy admitted today that they had used mock trials and had tried to scare confessions from the S.S. men, says the Associated Press. They denied brutality.
The four Americans were before a sub-committee of the American Senate which is probing the Germans’ charges of maltreatment.
The lives of six men may hinge on the outcome. These six are still under death sentence for their par in the killing of about 700 American prisoners of war at Malmedy. Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge.
About. 50 other Germans are serving gaol terms. Senator Raymond Baldwin, who heads the investigators, said the subcommittee would not alter the sentences, but he suggested that the Army Secretary could do so if the evidence showed that the convictions were obtained improperly.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23043, 6 September 1949, Page 5
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