CZECH PUPPET ARRESTED
LONDON. May 14
Dr. Emil Haeha, the Nazi puppet President of Czechoslovakia, has been arrested, says the Prague radio. Hacha -was the man who, .summoned to Berehtesgaden on April 15, 1939, signed a document surrendering the whole of Czechoslovakia to the Germans. Next day German troops marched into Prague. "Hacha handed over the keys to the Bohemian Crown jewels to "Butcher" Heydrich in 1941. Several former Ministers of the Quisling Cabinet and high army officers have also been arrested. The Dutch radio stated that Willy Lagers, chief of the Gestapo in Holland, who was responsible for the deportation of over 100,000 Dutch Jews, is anionn; 10,000 war criminals locked in the Amsterdam Gestapo prison.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 141, 16 May 1945, Page 6
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