IMPORTANT GENERALS
FORMAL ARREST BY ALLIES RUGBY, May 27.
Four important generals who have been under house arrest in Hamburg were formally arrested and removed for questioning, says a correspondent with the British Second Army. They are the Brigade Fuhrer of the S.S., Ballauf, Major-general of Sappers, Dr Hillart, Lieutenant-general Veith, and Lieutenant-general Hunerman. The last-named was a member of Fieldmarshal Keitel’s staff until recently, and Veith commanded the "ordnungstruppen,” or provost forces. Officers of the 53rd Welsh Division yesterday went tc the houses in which the generals were living and told them to stand by for 9 a.m. to-day. More than 28,000 German troops have been removed from the Hamburg zone to vast prisoner-of-war cages in Schleswig-Holstein. Left behind are 50,000 personnel of foreign origin who served in the German Army. They are of 26 nationalities, including Hungarians, Jugoslavs, Poles, Ukrainian Russians, Belgians, Austrians, Rumanians. Lithuanians, Czechs. Letts, Dutch, French, Estonians, Italians, Finns, Black Sea Germans, Swiss, Slovenes. Danes, and one Argentine. Tabulation of S.S. men in the Hamburg garrison area has been completed, and more than 200 will leave the city to-morrow for the new prison camp.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25856, 29 May 1945, Page 5
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