COMMUNISTS BEHEADED
NAZI REGIME EXECUTION FOUR ACCUSED OF MURDER. ATTACK ON BROWN SHIRTS' CLEMENCY PLEA REJECTED (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph j Copyright.) Received 12.4 Q u.m. to-day. BERLIN, Aug. 1. Four young Communists, a sailor, a shoemaker, a plumber and a workman, were decapitated by ail axe in the courtyard of the Aibrona. Gaol. They were found guilty of murder on “Bloody Stumday,” July 17, 1932, when Communists attacked a, Nazi procession, causing bitter .street fighting. It was not proved that the accuseds’ shots killed anyone, but Herr Goering ignored the plea for mercy, in accordance with the unnlofuneement that no clemency would be shown to those daring to attack the Brown Shirts. Forty-six Communists attempting to distribute anti-war pamphlets in Berlin were placed in a concentration camp in “view of the particular business of their agitation.’,’ .
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 2 August 1933, Page 9
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