NAZIS' VICTIMS
LIST KEPT SECRET SENSATIONAL RUMOURS BAVARIANS AMONG DEAD SEVERAL HIGH OFFICIALS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright BERLIN, July -1 Sensational rumours from Munich state that the bodies of a number of prominent Bavarians were found on Erdinger Moor, near Dachau. Tho victims are stated to include Herr von Kahz, who was Premier of Bavaria in 1923 at the time of Herr Hitler's unsuccessful "putsch," Lieutenant Scheringer, a Reichswehr officer, and Herr Sentner, a well-known Munich innkeeper. Herr Beck, director of the Foreign Students' Association of Munich, was killed last night at his homo in circumstances that remain a mystery. Others slain include Herr von Lossow, commander of the Munich garrison, Herr von Geisser, who was Chief of Police during the 1923 "putsch," Herr Stutzel, Bavarian Minister of the Interior, and Father Muhler, organiser of the Catholic Action Party in Munich.
The bodies of the majority of the victims were cremated.
Those arrested arc believed to include Count Guttenburg, leader of the dissolved Homo and King League, Baron Hedwitz, General von Humbokl, HenManfred von Killinger, Premier of Saxony and author of a book detailing the savage repression of Communists. He was subsequently released but was deprived of his Storm Troop leadership. The Government continues to keep the death list a secret, and it is now possible that it will be withheld from the country indefinitely, as the shooting of General yon Schleicher and his wife and ol: the Storm Troopers was such a shock to the country, and Herr Hitler is not willing to risk an additional shock.
HERR VON PAPEN A VIRTUAL PRISONER LONDON JOURNAL BANNED LONDON. July 4 The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Express states that Herr von Pa pen remains Vice-Chancellor but will find a detachment of black uniformed bodyguards at his office, and his old staff replaced by Nazi officials. Thus he is now himself in chains.
The Sunday Express has been banned throughout Germany.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21845, 6 July 1934, Page 11
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