BIGGEST MURDER TRIAL IN HISTORY ENDS
14 SENTENCED TO DEATH Recr. 6.40 p.m. London, April 10 The American War ('rimes Tribunal, after “the biggest murder trial in history,” sentenced to death by hanging 14 former German S.S. officers of the Nazi extermination group. The court found them guilty on Friday of killing more than one million antiNazis in German-occupied countries. Those condemned included Major-General Otto Ohlendorf, Brigadier - Generals Erich Naumann and Werener Braune, Colonels Paul Blobel, Walter Blume, Martin Sandberger, and Willy Siebert. The court sentenced Briga-dier-General Heinz Jost and Lieut.-Colonel Gustav Nosske to life imprisonment, and sentenced two other former officers to 20 years’ imprison* ment, and two others to ten years. It is the sternest judgment ever given in Nuremberg.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 12 April 1948, Page 5
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