SENT BACK TO GERMANY
ESCAPED PRISONER
CZECH STATE ACTION
PROMPT EXECUTION
(El«c. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed, Dec. 22, 2.15 p.m.) PRAGUE, Dec. 21. The Czech. Government extradited to Germany Peter Forester, who, with a companion, killed a guard and escaped from the Weimar concentration camp in May and crossed into Czechoslovakia and surrendered to the police.
Forester’s companion was recaptured in Germany before crossing the frontier and was immediately beheaded.
A message from Berlin states that a special court at Weimar to-day sentenced Forester to death for escaping from the concentration camp and killing the guard. He was executed within 24 hours of being extradited fi om Czechoslovakia.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19381223.2.88
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19820, 23 December 1938, Page 7
Word Count
109SENT BACK TO GERMANY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19820, 23 December 1938, Page 7
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in