THREE FRIGHTENED MEN

Wanganui Chronicle, 4 October 1946, Page 5

THREE FRIGHTENED MEN

Fritsche, Schacht and von Papen are still in Nuremberg gaol to-night because they are too frightened to laave, says the "Daily Express” Nuremberg correspondent. They could have been gone 24 hours ago but the military governor of the prison, Col. B. C. Andrus, says “They just won’t budge.” Relatives, lawyers and prison officials tried all afternoon to persuade them to go but at the last moment fear got the better of them and they stayed,

The “Daily Mail’s” correspondent says they are refusing to leave until Colonel Andrus has given them safe conduct but Andrus said that he had no authority to do so. He passed on their request to Third Army headquarters. VISA REFUSED The French authorities have refused von Papen a visa for entry into the French zone of Germany, where he intended to stay with his wife who is living at Ravenburg, 13 miles from Friedrichshafen. Von Papen probably will seek permission from the British authorities to go to Hamburg, where his 23-year-old daughter lives. “I have no money, no ration card and no home so where do I go?" Schacht told reporters when accom-

panied by his wife he conferred with his lawyers. Counsel said Schacht would like permission to go to Schleswigholstein in the British zone.

Colonel Andrus said he was awaiting instructions before going ahead with any plans such as the erection of the scaffold for the execution of* the convicted. WHAT GERMANS THINK

The “Times” Berlin correspondent commenting on the storm of protests which have arisen from the Germans against the acquittals, adds that German feeling is that the Nazi leaders are answerable to the German people as distinct from the Allies and humanity generally for the broken Geiman lives and ruined German cities. It is the basis of the common German attitude that the real crime foi which the leaders found themselves in Nuremberg was not that the} started the war but lost it.

Von Papen, of the three acquitted, is the most guilty in German eyes because they considered Papen s recommendation of Hitler to the ageo Hindenburg was the prime cause ol Hitler’s rise to power.

The German people generally regard the sentences as taking from oidinary German shoulders some weight of the German guilt for the war.