WHO DOES KNOW?

Southland Times, Issue 22464, 29 October 1934, Page 5

WHO DOES KNOW?

GERMAN EXECUTIONS ESTIMATE NOW REACHES 1000 SECRET EXECUTIONS (United Press Assn—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 6.30 p.m.) London, October 27. The Daily Guardian’s special correspondent in pointing out that additional revelations now bring the estimate of German executions in connection with the disturbances on June 30 to 1000. explains that possibly Hitler does not know how many Dr. Goering ordered to be executed, nor does Dr. Goering know how many Herr Hitler ordered to be put to death, while Herr Himmler also probably carried out unofficial executions. It is now known that 14 were secretly executed at Lichtenburg, Saxony, in the precincts of an old castle used as a concentration camp where the prisoners were ordered to dig near a corner of the vegetable garden a trench 23 feet long and five feet deep to which prisoners were motored from Berlin on two nights and marched separately, blindfolded to the trench. Some begged for mercy and others asked to write to their families. They only received the answer: “We must put an end to dogs like you,” after which they were shot with revolvers in the neck and buried in the trench. The identity of the victims has not been disclosed, but apparently persons of distinction were sent to Lichtenburg in order to be killed with special privacy. Lichtenburg is also notorious as a great centre of German military preparations. The whole neighbouring place includes one of the new subterranean aerodromes being constructed in various parts of Germany.