VON PAPEN TO SERVE EIGHT YEARS IN A LABOUR CAMP
Recd. 11.30 p.m. London, Feb. 24. One of the three top Nazis who were acquitted at tne trial at Nuremberg, von Papen, was today sentenced by a De-Nazifica-tion Court, composed of his own countrymen, to serve for eight years in a labour camp. He leaned heavily on a stick and had to be helped into the dock by his chauffeur and counsel. Von Papen was German Ambassador in Turkey during the war and was a former Chancellor in Germany. He was acquitted together with the banker Schacht, and the propaganda deputy, Fritsche.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 25 February 1947, Page 5
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