DEATH SENTENCES.
THE GERMAN SITUATION. FATE OF GIRL CLERKS. Received November 1. 1.50 p.m. BERLIN, Oct. 31. Death sentences on spies are tucked away without comment in the corners of newspapers, though in any other country they would have been the sensation of the week. The Nazis’ People’s Court is comparable to a revolutionary tribunal without appeal. The names of the condemned are only known to the Judges, but one casa seems to be that of Frau Vonberg, wife of the director of a well-known German electrical firm, also A. D. Sosnowski, accused of selling the secret. of a new type of aeroplane engine to a foreign power. . Two girl employees of the Reichswehr Ministry, Frauleins Vonmatzner and Engelbrecht, both of good families, were also found guilty of high treason, but it is not known if they were executed. The mother of one of the girls unwittingly gave her daughter away. Because she was anxious about the girl’s extravagance she went to the Ministry and enquired what salary was paid her. Detectives followed the girl and found her meeting Frau Von Berg and Sosnowski. It is understood Sosnowski has been exchanged for a German officer caught spying in a foreign capital. Frau Von Berg’s fate was not announced, though it is reported in society circles that the two girl clerks were summarily shot. This is not confirmed.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 287, 1 November 1934, Page 8
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