BRITISH COURT JAILS GERMAN SHIPBUILDERS OVER “DISMANTLING”

Grey River Argus, 14 November 1949, Page 5

BRITISH COURT JAILS GERMAN SHIPBUILDERS OVER “DISMANTLING”

(Rec. 5.30). LONDON, Nov. 12. A High Court belonging to the! British Control Commission in Western Germany, has found six of the! directors and officials of the firm of Blohm and Voss, a shipbuilding firm, guilty of unauthorised interference with'their plant and equipment, which had been earmarked for dismantling as reparations for Allied countries. Friedrich Walter »lohm was fined £B4O sterling, and Georg Wilhelm Rudolf Blohm £420 sterling. The Judge described Otto Ernst Wilhelm Dalldorf as organiser of the scheme, and he sentenced him to 12 months’ imprisonment. Heinrich Christian Lorensert received a sentence of 12- months. Max Paul Andrae was gaoled for 12 months and fined £2lO sterling. Karl Heidonreich was sentenced to nine months’ gaol. ;1 — . i East Berlin Property Confiscated LONDON, November 12'., Reuter’s Berlin correspondent says: The East Berlin City Administration has proclaimed, as peoples’ property, five, hundred and ninety industries and nine hundred and ninety one houses and estates, as having formerly being owned by war criminals and Nazis. They include the I. G. F'arben Chemical Works. All of these were previously administered by the Soviet occupation authorities. Soviet Ends Military Control in East Berlin (Rec. 8.30). LONDON, Nov. 12. The correspondent of the Associated Press at Berlin says: The Russians today followed the Western Powers’ example, and renounced its Military Government in Eastern Berlin. The Soviet Commandant in Berlin, MajorGeneral Alexander Kotikov, told the East Berlin City Government that, in future, Germans would govern the Soviet sector of Berlin, just as Germans now governed the Western sector. . ’ This move is intended by the Russians to illustrate the Kremlin’s policy as one of backing the East German Government which they have sponsored for the entire Soviet zone.