SEVEN CHARGES OF WAR CRIMES AGAINST FORMER NAZI OFFICER
NZPA—Reuter—Copyright f LONDON, May 25. The War Office to-day announced 17 charges against the 65-year-old former Field-marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, German commander in the Russian campaign. The charges deal with atrocities such as participating in the killing and maltreatment of Soviet prisoners and their deaths from neglect, starvation and disease, and forcibly recruiting Russian prisoners into units of the German Army to fight their fellow-copntrymen. Other charges include taking part in the mass extermination of Jews and others by shooting, gassing and drowning; complicity in the forcible evacuation of civilian population before his retreating 'army • after the complete destruction of their homes, and the deportation of Russian civilians into Germany for slave labour. Von Manstein was found to be fit for trial after a recent medical examination. His former chief, Field-marshal von Rundstedt, 73, and Colonel-general Strauss, 69, have both been excused trial because of their health. Four German military heads were originally held for trial, but former Field-marshal von Brauchitsch. 69. died last October.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27091, 27 May 1949, Page 5
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