SPIES IN GERMANY
TWO WOMEN EXECUTED. (Received Tuesday, 10.5 a.m.) BERLIN, Monday. The beautiful, golden-liaired Baroness Von Berg and Frau Von Natzner, have been beheaded. Herr Hitler declined an appeal for mercy. An official announcement says the spies Baron Sosnowski and Fraulein Von Jena were sentenced to life imprisonment.
A previous cable from Berlin stated that the People’s Court sentenced to death for espionage and high treason Baron Sosnowski, a Polish officer. Three women, Baroness von Berg and Frauleins von Natzmer and von Jena, were sentenced to life imprisonment. The parties were arrested in April, 1934. The trial began a week ago. Frauleins Natzmer and Jena were employed at the War Office and allegedly supplied Sosnowski -with copies of documents relating to the expansion of the German army. The women’s extravagance in dress aroused suspicion. It is understood that Sosnowski and Frau von Berg married during their long imprisonment, the latter having obtained a divorce. As a result, Sosnowski refused an offer of repatriation to Poland as an exchange prisoner.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 February 1935, Page 5
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