SECRET EXECUTIONS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 256, 29 October 1934, Page 7

SECRET EXECUTIONS

UNHAPPY GERMANY DICTATORS ARE RULINC MEN SHOT LIKE DOGS MANY “UNOFFICIAL” DEATHS [By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright? Received Oct. 28, 7.35 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 27. The Manchester Guardian’s special correspondent, pointing out that additional revelations now bring the estimate of German executions in connecliod with the disturbances of June 30 last to 1000, explains that possibly Herr Hitler docs not know how manv Herr Goering has ordered to be executed; nor does Herr Goering know how many Herr Hitler has ordered tc be put to death, while Herr Himinlei has also probably carried out “ua official” executions. It is now known that fourteen wen secretly executed at Lichtenburg ir Saxony, in the precincts of the old castle used as a concentration camp, where prisoners were ordered to dig near the corner of a vegetable garden a trench 23 feet long and five feet deep, to which prisoners were motored from Berlin on two nights and then inarched separately and blindfolded to the trenefe. 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, they were persons of distinction sent to Lichtenburg in order to be killed with special privacy. Lichtenburg is also notorious as a great centre of German military preparations, while the neighbourhood includes one of the new subterranean aerodromes being constructed in various parts of Germany.