EXECUTING NAZIS
TWO APPLICANTS FOR THE JOB
Recd. 12.25 p.m. Nuremberg, Dec. 8. “I, Comrade Erich Richter, a member of the Communist Party in Germany, would like the job of knocking off the head.® of the leading Nazi criminals.” With this application Comrade Richter was the first of the volunteers for the job of Nuremberg executioner, says the Associated Press correspondent. The second volunteer was an inmate of a refugee camp, Joseph Schmidt, who “recommends himself as executioner,” and, unlike Richter, suggests his appointment, should follow an agreement; on the subject of fees.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 299, 19 December 1945, Page 5
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