THE TRIO MUST REGISTER AS GERMANS

Wanganui Chronicle, 7 October 1946, Page 5

THE TRIO MUST REGISTER AS GERMANS

BERLIN RALLY DEMANDS THEY BE TRIED Recd. 9 p.m. Frankfurt, Oct. 5.

The United States Military Government has announced that Schacht, von Papen and Fritsche would be required to register under the German de-Naziflcation law like any other German adults in the American zone. It added that those acquitted henceforth would be subject to German law and the German authorities. Germans, under regular de-Nazifica-tion procedure, were liable to a maximum sentence of 10 years' impr.sonment if classed as major .offenders. The Associated Press correspondent in Berlin reports that 5200 Germans heard and endorsed demands by German officials from the Russian zone that the three ecquitted, Schacht, Fritsche and von Papen, should be handed over to the Germans for trial, and also the seven who escaped the death sentence and wore imprisoned. The rally was the biggest and noisiest in Berlin since the war. The crowd roared acclamation when the speaker cried> “We are a People's Court, not like those learned men in Nuremberg.”