GERMAN SENSATION

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 225, 23 August 1932, Page 7

GERMAN SENSATION

TRIAL OF NAZIS. DEATH SENTENCES PASSED. THREAT MADE IN COURT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received August 23, 11.5 a.m. BERLIN, Aug. 22. Nazi storm troops ran amok in tho streets at Bcuthon after five of their comrados were sentenced for murdering a Communist.

When sentenco was pronounced Edmund Heins, a member of tho Reichstag and commander of the Nazi storm troops in Silesia, rose in the Court and shouted: “The German people will deliver different sentences. This is tho signal for Germany's liberation,” whereupon uproar occurred, Heins loading tho demonstration with shouts of “Hail, Hitler 1” Tho demonstration quickly spread outsido, tho Nazis' smashing tho windows of Jewish shops and Catholic and Socialist newspaper offices. The polico, equipped with rifles and steel helmets, exchanged shots with tho Nazis. They cleared the streets and arrested Heins and also saved a Jewish pedlar from lynching. To-day’s death sentences wore tho first ordered by tho special Courts. The fact that they were imposed on Nazis caused a sensation throughout the countrj'.

Tho first trial under the deerco imposing tho death penalty for terrorist crime took placo at Bcuthen, where nino Nazis wero charged witli tho death of a Communist, Pietrzuch, who was killed in Silesia two hours after the decree camo into force. Tho local Nazi newspaper 6tated that if tho Court dared to pass a single death sentence a storm would bo raised throughout Germany with incalculable results.