IN NUREMBERG GAOL

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25299, 5 September 1945, Page 5

IN NUREMBERG GAOL

TOP WAR CRIMINALS NO LUXURIES ALLOWED NUREMBERG, Aug. 20 A member of the interrogation staff of Mr Justice Jackson, prosecutor in the war criminal trials, has stated that all the Nazi prisoners do a lot of writing. They are holding up extraordinarily well and their health is very good. Goerjng has lost about 301b weight. Right more "defendants or witnesses," whose names at present are secret, have joined in the city gaol the 15 who were transferred here on August 13. The 23, who include Goering, Itibbentrop, von Papen, Streicher, Ley, SeyssInquart, Rosenberg, Hans Frank. Keitel and Jodl, occupy cells in the easternmost\ block of tlie four-storied Nuremberg gaol, which stands behind the GoO-room' Palace of Justice. The is enclosed by a 10ft stone wall, which, however, allows the defendants in the cells at the end of the building to have a splendid view of a neighbouring cab-bage-patch and a good strctcn of Nuremberg's extensive ruins. Only their gaolers and the officers concerned with the preparation of the case against the war criminals are allowed to see them. No war criminal in Nuremberg lives in luxury. In each cell is a small wooden chair, a wooden table, and an iron stretcher, narrow and quite unfitted for a man of Goering's bulk. The solitary window is fitted with heavy iron bars. There is a single electric light, but the order "lights out" is given almost immediately after it becomes dark. The criminals receive the meal of the ordinary American soldier three times a day. Special arrangements are being made to ensure the safety of the defendants. An enclosed runway is being built between the gaol ansl the ground floor of the court. This will enable the defendants to be brought unseen to the elevator which will carry them to the entrance of the dock.