GERMAN EXECUTIONS
HORROR EXPRESSED Received Nov. 7, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 5. Thirty members of Parliament have sent a telegram to Herr Hitler expressing horror and disgust at the execution of Robert Stamm, a former Reichstag Deputy, a. d Adolph Rembte, a trade unionist, who were beheaded yesterday. The message adds a renewed appeal for the commutation of all death sentences for political activity and the immediate release of Ernst Thaelmann and other prisoners who have not been tried. REPLY TO PROTEST Received Nov. 7, 8.20 p.m. BERLIN, Nov. 6. The spokesman for the Ministry of Propaganda, referring to the protest by the British members of Parliament, said: “The executions are exclusively our own affair, in which no foreigners have a right to meddle.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 265, 8 November 1937, Page 8
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