230 MORE EXECUTIONS
GERMAN MORAL PURGE
THOUSANDS OF ARRESTS
(Received Dec. 28, noon.) LONDON, Dec. 27. Piague newspapers report a new purge in Germany. They state that 230 leaders of the Storm Troops and Black Guards and a number of high Nazi officials were arrested and executed in the first fortnight in December. Another rumor estimates tbe arrests in Germany during tbe past month at between 1000 and 4000.
The purge, it is reported, began with the arrest of Herr Brueekner, ex-Gover-nor of Silesia and 50 of his supporters “for moral offences.”
The German Government- spokesman officially denies foreign reports of wholesale arrests and executions in Germany. There have been no executions, and reports of thousands of arrests had been exaggerated from the fact that 300 arrests were made early in December, during the campaign against sexual perversion. Of those arrested 200 had been released.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18590, 28 December 1934, Page 5
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