KURT VON SCHUSCHNIGG

Grey River Argus, 27 April 1945, Page 7

KURT VON SCHUSCHNIGG

REPORTED MURDER BY NAZIS LONDON, April 24. Political prisoners in Flossenbrirg concentration camp, nine miles northeast of Weiden, liberated by Americans. said to-day that S.S. men murdered the former Austrian Chancellor, Kurt Von Schuschnigg, at the camp on April 15 reports an Associated Press correspondent. It will be recalled that prisoners at Buchenwald stated Von Schuschnigg was removed from there before the Allies arrived. Prisoners at Flossenburg also stated the former German Finance Minister, Dr. Sacht, was removed to Dachau when Dr. Schuschnigg was murdered. Americans liberated sixteen hundred, but inmates said the camp held fifteen thousand a week before the Americans arrived, the others being marched to Dachau. The remainder declared 12,500 were starved to death, hanged, shot or killed by injections since the camp was established in 1938. A camp ’inmate said he saw a camp doctor removing gold from Schuschnigg’s teeth after his execution. His body was then burned in the camp crematorium. Prisoners said they saw thirteen American paratroops hanged near the camp. One said that he was detailed to cut bodies down. They were then placed in camp ovens.