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NAZI JUSTICE. REPRESSION OF COMMUNISM. APPEAL FOR MERCY IGNORED. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received August 2, 10.50 a.m.) BERLIN, August 1. Four young Communists —a sailor, a shoemaker, a plumber and a workman—were decapitated by axe in thft courtyard of the Altona gaol. They had been found guilty of murder ‘on “ Bloody Sunday,” July 17, 1932, when Communists attacked a Nazi procession,/Causing bitter street fighting. it was not proved that the accuseds shots killed anyone, but Captain Goering, the Prussian Administrator, Ignored the plea for mercy in accordance with the announcement that no clemency would be shown ,to those daring to attack the Brown Shirts. Forty-six; Communists, for attempting to distribute anti-war pamphlets -u Berlin, were placed in a concentration camp, in “ view of the particular baseness of their agitation."
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Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19013, 2 August 1933, Page 7
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