NAZI VICTIMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 287, 1 November 1934, Page 12

NAZI VICTIMS.

IN “ROEHM REVOLT.” I am able to disclose for the first time the full list of members of the Reichstag w;lio were executed or imprisoned on June 30 on the ground of their connection with the “Roehm revolt,” states the Berlin correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph. They are 12 in number. The names of only seven of these were officially published at the time. The new names are unwittingly revealed by a work of reference —“Das Deutsche Fuhrer-Lexicon” —recently published with official approval. The book was evidently already in the press when the events of June 30 changed the political face of Germany. In the list of members of the Reichstag the following names are pasted-over with a small piece of white paper: Group Leader Siegfried Kasche (Frankfurt-on-Oder), Group Leader Fritz Ritter von Krausser (Magdeburg), Brigade Leader Hans lLnishorn, Police President of Gleiwitz, Group Leader Konrad Schradmuller, Police President of Magdeburg. There is every reason to assume that none of the men above died natural deaths, for a list of members of the Reichstag who have died since the election is given in another section, together with their substitutes. The names of the former are not deleted in the complete Reichstag list. A list of 12 new Reichstag deputies is also printed in an appendix, in this case, however, the names of those whose places they are filling arc not given. They are evidently substitutes for the dozen “casualties” whose identity is revealed above. Another name, which was already known, is that of Deorg von Detten, the mysterious figure whom Herr Hitler named in his Reichstag speech as having been entrusted by General yon Schleicher with the “foreign political preparations” for the “revolt.” The Propaganda Ministry then disclaimed all knowledge of his identity. It transpires that he was not only a member of the Reichstag, but a Prussian Privy Councillor, a Stormtroop group leader, and head of a department in the Stormtroop headquarters. The men whose names had previously been published were : Chief of Staff Roehm, Minister without portfolio in' the German Cabinet; Chief Group Leader Sclineidhuber, Police President of Munich; Chief Group Leader Heines, Police President of Breslau ; Chief Group Leader Ernst (Berlin); Group Leader Schmid (Munich); Group Leader Hayn (Saxony) ; Group Leader von Heydebreclt (Pomerania). This is not the only information to be gathered from this interesting lexicon. From the list of members of the “Academy of German Justice,” the name of Dr. Walter Lutzgebrune has been deleted. This eminent lawyer, who defended General Dudendorff in the trial which followed the Munich Nazi putsch of November, 1933, has been missing since June 30. Whether he is alive, in prison, or dead, it is impossible to ascertain.

Turning the pages further one finds that the name of the head of the Maritime Department at the Ministry of Transport has been pasted over. The holder of this post was Dr. Klausener, Berlin head of the Catholic Action, who was murdered on June 30.

The body of the lexicon contains biographies of leading Germans, with their photographs. Here again, the events of June 30 have worked havoc. In this case the necessary paragraph has been removed bodily. No fewer than eiglity-one blank spaces have thus been left, but as some of these are consecutive at the turn of tlie page it is impossible to be certain of the exact number of “German leaders” who shared the fate of Captain Roelim.