Iron Control Clamped Down on Germany
SPIES, GESTAPO AND WAR CRIMINALS GAOLED Received Saturuay, 12.25 a.m. LONDON, May 11. The Allied Military Government Has clamped down an iron control on Germany, says the Evening Standard’s correspondent witn the Second army. Two tnousand arrests were made in tne Second Army’s occupation zone. There are prominent Nazis, political suspects, collaoorators, spies, Gestapo agents and war criminals among tne prisoners in the gaois. many uermaas who have broken Military government laws have been summarily trieu and sentenced for contravention of movements restriction orders, concealment of firearms, and evasion of the curlew. The principal offence, the unauthorised possession of firearms, is in some circumstances a capital offence. one sentence of 15 years has been imposed and another of 10 years. Minor offences have been punished with sentences up to six months and the offenders have had their rations halved.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 111, 12 May 1945, Page 5
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