MASS EXECUTION
SIX COMMUNISTS BEHEADED.
SHOOTING OF TWO NAZIS.
(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Berlin, November 30. “Heads are rolling,” yelled newsboys when rapidly selling newspapers describing the beheading of six young Communists by a top-hatted, frockcoated executioner for shooting . two Nazis. The mass execution was widely discussed, many approving of General Goering’s refusal of a reprieve for “sub-humans” guilty of the murder .of Brown Shirts. Others doubt the wisdom of the executions and fear that Nazi ruthlessness will decree a similar fate for ten Communists who were sentenced to death for the murder of a Nazi for which three have already been beheaded, although the judge pointed out that eight were convicted who were net involved in the actual shooting.
The Hamburg Court tried 23 Communists charged with slightly wounding a Nazi and imposed sentences ranging from 15 years on seven and smaller terms on the remainder.
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Southland Times, Issue 22188, 2 December 1933, Page 5
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