NAZI SUICIDES
LONDON, April 18. A wave of suicides and murders among Nazis accompanied the American capture of Pegau, says a correspondent of the Associated • Press. As the American tanks broke • in the burgomaster shot himself, the chief of police killed his family and himself and an S.S. trooper shot his wife and his two daughters and tried, to slash his own wrists with a razor.
Renter's correspondent with the Ninth Army says it is reported from the Ruhr pocket that Model, who commanded the northern front, has committed suicide.
The Swiss newspaper Cuvriere reports that Frau Seholtz-Klink, leader of the Nazi women's organisations, committed suicide at Constance. She was known as "Hitler's ideal woman."
The British United Press correspondent reports that a harakiri party took place at Verden at the end of resistance to General Montgomery's forces. The garrison commander, regimental commander and the local magistrate and his wife committed suicide in front of the troops. - "i
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 119, 19 April 1945, Page 5
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