TRIAL OF NAZIS

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 22611, 16 May 1945, Page 5

TRIAL OF NAZIS

PROBABLE ACCUSATIONS HITLER’S DEPUTY TAKEN GOERING’S DEMEANOUR (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, May 15 General Patton’s troops have captured Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Himmler’s deputy and possibly the most important Nazi next to Goering yet taken by the Allies, says the Daily Telegraph’s correspondent with the American Third Army. Kaltenbrunner was surprised and trapped in a mountain refuge in the Tyrol. He is probably the only man who knows where Himmler is. The Moscow newspaper Izvestia demands the immediate trial and death of Doenitz, Himmler, General Falkenhorst, and other top-ranking Nazis. It says: “Those who did not manage to hide are resorting to other trickery, like Goering, who is shedding copious tears and putting on the act of the innocent lamb.” Goering and Hess Goering, who was captured by the United States Seventh Army, and Rudolf Hess, who has been in British custody for four years, are to be put on trial for their lives, according to the Daily Mail. The paper says that the charges, place, and date of the trials are being discussed by' Britain, the United States and Rusi sia. I All London newspapers are en- ; deavouring to discount Goering’s attempt to pose as a cheery, good- ; hearted fellow, who was a victim of I Hitler’s hot temper. His responsibility when deputy-Fuehrer for I some of the worst atrocities of the j war is the subject of much discussion in European capitals. The Luxemburg radio stated that I Goering would face the Allied War : Crimes Commission on charges of j being responsible for the slaughter of , the entire population of Lidice. Both , the Czechs and the Poles are willing |to act as prosecutors at his trial. Goering is being held partially responsible for the deaths of thousands of Czechs in concentration camps, the radio added, and for the murder ' of Czech students who were demon--1 strating on the Czech National Day | in 1939. Darre To Be Tried There is evidence that Goering himself laid plans for the deportation of hundreds of thousands of foreign workers to Germany. Walter ! Darre, former German Food Minisj ter, who was Goering’s assistant in j that task, will also be tried, accordj ing to these broadcasts, i Men who may be described as 1 secondary war criminals, including Laval, Quisling and de Grelle (the Belgian Rexist leader), will be tried j according to the laws and before the ! Courts of their countries, says the ! Daily Mail. “Third-grade” war criminals—- ! and this description does not indicate I the degree of their crimes—include Dr. Seyss Inquart (former German I High Commissioner for Holland), 1 Dr. Werner Best (former German j High Commissioner for Denmark), ; and Hans Frank (former German j Governor-General of Poland). | A scientific examination is being made in Oslo of the bodies alleged to | be those of the German Reich ComI missar, Terboven, and his police j chief, Rediess. The belief is /growing ! that they are not those of Terboven and Rediess. Both these Nazis are ’ believed in Copenhagen to have disi appeared, together with a selected ; band of the worst Gestapo gangsters, j in big ocean-going submarines.