BEHEADING OF SIX MEN
COMMUNISTS PAY PENALTY MASS EXECUTION BY NAZIS CONTROVERSY IN GERMANY SEVERITY ON OPPONENTS By Telegraph—Press Assn.-Copyright . Berlin, Nov. 30. “Heads are rolling,” yelled the newsboys, rapidly selling newspapers describing the beheading of six young Communists by a top-hatted and frock-coated executioner, for the shooting of two Nazis. The mass execution was widely discussed, many approving of Captain Goering’s refusal of a reprieve for “subhumans” guilty of the murder of Brown Shirts. Others doubt the wisdom of the action and fear that Nazi ruthlessness will decree for a similar fate ten Communists who have been sentenced to death for the murder of the Nazi Desau, for which three have already been beheaded, although the judge pointed out that eight were convicted who were not involved in the actual shooting.
A Hamburg court, trying 22 Communists for slightly wounding a Nazi, imposed sentences of from 15 to nine years on seven, and on the remainder smaller terms.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 December 1933, Page 7
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