BELSEN CONFESSION
COMMANDANT’S CRIMES.
POSTPONEMENT OE TRIAL. (N.Z. Press Association. —Copyright.) (Pec. 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, - Aug. 6.
Tlie former commandant of the Belsen concentration camp, Josef Kramer, who is awaiting trial at Celle, has signed a statement confessing to his war crimes, says Ileuter’s correspondent.
The text cannot be disclosed at present because it might prejudice his trial, but it is stated on good authority that Kramer was involved in other war crimes apart from those at the Belsen camp. The statement will be read at the Belsen trial. Kramer is in prison with 47 others noth whom he will be jointly charged with ill-treating and causing tho deaths of 20,000 persons. The trial is not likely to begin on the scheduled date, August 12; it is more likely to start early in September.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 212, 7 August 1945, Page 5
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