NAZI’S MERCILESS POLICY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19942, 29 October 1934, Page 8

NAZI’S MERCILESS POLICY

SEQUEL TO CRUSHING OF REVOLT UNNAMED VICTIMS OF HITLERISM United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph - Copyright (Received October 28, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON. October 27. The special correspondent of “The Manchester Guardian,” pointing out that additional revelations now bring the estimate of the German executions in connection with the disturbances on June 6, to one thousand, explains that possibly Herr Hitler does not know how many General Goering ordered to be executed, nor does General Goering know how many Herr Hitler ordered to be put to death, while General Himmler also probably carried out unofficial executions. It is now known that fourteen w*ere secretly executed at Lichtenburg, in Saxony, in the precincts of an old castle, used as a concentration camp, where the prisoners were ordered to dig, near the corner of a vegetable garden, a trench 23ft long and sft deep, to which prisoners were motored from Berlin, on two nights, and were blindfolded and marched separately to the trench. Some begged for mercy and others asked to be permitted 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 they were persons of distinction, who were sent to Lichtenburg in order tc be killed with special privacy.

Military Activity.

The correspondent adds that Lichtenburg is also notorious as a great centre of German military preparations, while the neighbouring place includes one of the new subterranean aerodromes being constructed in various parts of Germany.