SCHUSCHNIGG'S FATE
EARLY TRIAL EXPECTED BUERCKEL TO PROSECUTE SPECIAL COURT PROPOSED LONDON, August 24 There is little doubt that Dr. Schuschnigg, the former Austrian Chancellor, Herr Richard Schmitz, the former Burgomaster of Vienna, and Baron Louis Rothschild, Austrian banker, will be among the first people to be tried by the Special Court to bo set up to deal with former members of the Austrian Cabinet and others, according to the Vienna correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. The Volkischer Beobachter, the Nazi organ in Berlin, in a leading article, says it is appropriate that Herr Buerckel, Herr Hitler's Commissioner in Austria, should be entrusted with the prosecution, because he himself had said that he was inclined to hang the big offenders and let the smaller offenders go-
Herr Buerckel, in an interview with foreign correspondents in Vienna at the end of June, referred to the possibility of placing Dr. Schuschnigg on trial for the "judicial murder" of Nazis who were hanged or otherwise met violent deaths during his regime, and have since been enrolled in the book of martyrs. Ho took the view that Herr Hitler must be regarded as having been magnanimous in sparing Dr. Schuschnigg's life.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23130, 31 August 1938, Page 13
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