RELEASES RAISE PROTESTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26274, 4 October 1946, Page 5

RELEASES RAISE PROTESTS

GERMAN PEOPLE INDIGNAN'I • LONDON, Oct. 2. Protests against the Nuremberg verdicts are becoming more widespread. A 10-minute strike is expected in many Berlin factories to-morrow as a protest against the sentences, says Reuter's Hamburg correspondent. The German trade unions’ newspaper, Frie Gewerkschaft,. said that those sentenced to imprisonment were just as guilty as those sentenced to death. Why should they get awgy with it? They also deserve the rope" The State Assembly of Greater Hesse adopted a motion by the Democratic Party that von Papen, Schacht, and Fritsche should be brought before a German court and charged with higli treason. Agency correspondents report that mass demonstrations of the Socialist Unity Party at Zwickau, in Saxony, carried a resolution that the three acquitted should be tried in the German People's Court. The executive of the Communis! Party, in Bavaria sent a telegram to the chief prosecutor of the Bavarian Ministry of Justice and to the chief prosecutor at Nuremberg asking for the immediate arrest of the three acquitted on charges of high treason and murder. The executive of the district Socialist Unity Party and the district executive of the Free Trade Unions at Leipzig palled for a mass demonstration in Marx Square, Leipzig, to-morrow to express the “ working people’s indignation at the lenient sentences passed at Nuremberg."