MASS EXECUTION.
COMMUNISTS IN GERMANY. NAZI RUTHLESSNESS. SEVERE SENTENCES IMPOSED. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received Dec. 1, 1.25 p.m.) BERLIN, Nov. 30. “ Heads are rolling,” yelled the newsboys who were rapidly selling newspapers, describing -the beheading of six young Communists by a tophatted, frock-coated executioner, for shooting two Nazis. The mass execution is widely discussed, many approving of General Goering’s refusal of a reprieve for “ sub-humans ” guilty of murder of Brown Shirts. Others doubt the wisdom of the execution and fear that Nazi ruthlessness will decree for a similar fate of the ten Communists who were sentenced to death for the murder of a Nazi, for which three have already been beheaded, although the Judge pointed out that eight were convicted who were not involved in the actual shooting.
The Hamburg Court trying 23 Communists for slightly wounding a Nazi, imposed a -sentence varying from nine to fifteen years oil seven, and the remainder to shorter terms.
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Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19118, 1 December 1933, Page 6
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