Five Of Hitler’s Trusted Lieutenants Released From War Crimes Gao!
LONDON, Dec. 21.—Five of Hitler’s trusted lieutenants were released from the Landsberg war crimes prison to-day-several months early, for good behaviour.
The Associated Press Landsberg correspondent, in reporting this, says they were convicted at the Nuremberg trials of offences ranging from atrocities against Allied prisoners to membership in the S.S. guard and plundering conquered countries.
The five were:— Former Wehrmacht General Karl Hollidit, convicted of atrocities against prisoners and civilians. Georg von Schnitzler, a former I.G. Farben director, convicted of taking part in Nazi plundering. Josef Altstoetter, an official of the Ministry of Justice, convicted of S.S. membership. Ernst Bohle, former head of the Nazi foreign organisation. Emil Puhi, former vice-president of tiie Reichsbank.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 23 December 1949, Page 5
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