BRITISH PRISONERS IN NORWAY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 304, 26 December 1945, Page 5

BRITISH PRISONERS IN NORWAY

ALL MURDERED BY THE GERMANS London, Dec. 23. Not a single British war prisoner was found alive in Norway after the liberation, said the War Crimes Commission's chief representative in Norway, Lieutenant-Colonel Dobson. The Germans killed all British who fell into their hands during operations on Norway. The trial of Germans responsible for these murders already has begun, and 1300 others are awaiting trial for war crimes.

HANGED NEAR NOTORIOUS CREMATORIUM

Reed. 8 p.m. London, Dec. 24. Paul Hoffman, who controlled the crematorium at Maidenek concentration camp, Poland, was executed yesterday. The Polish Court ordered that Hoffman be publicly hanged close to the crematorium.

GERMAN POLICEMAN SHOT Recd. 6 p.m. London, Dec. 24. When German police, searching for stolen goods, stopped a car yesterday morning on the outskirts of Hamburg, two passengers drew revolvers and fired, killing one policeman, says the ‘‘Daily Teelgraph’s” correspondent. The occupants restarted the car and drove on. GERMAN COURTS TO FUNCTION London, Dec. 23. German courts in the American zone in Germany in future are trying all offences and crimes committed under the Nazi regime by Germans or nationals of a state not belonging to the United Nations against others of such nationalities, if the acts are punishable under German law. NAZISM IN GERMANY ALLEGATION THAT IT IS STILL COUNTENANCED. Washington, Dec. 23. Mr. Kilgore has issued a statement: “The attitude of some of our key officials countenances, and even bolsters, Nazism in economic and political life in Germany," he says. He contended that some military government officials, with the co-operation of some persons in the State Department, have so far signally failed to carry out the Potsdam agreement for making Germany provide reparations to the victims,.and at the same time secure effective industrial disarmament. Mr. Kilgore added that German economy as it is at present constituted is a powerful menace to the peace of the world and is more powerful In many respects than in 1939.