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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1946.

NUERNBERG SECRETS REVEALED Hunting Knife That Narrowly Missed Goering

Payroll Taken

Jerusalem, Oct. 13.

Three masked Jewish guamen carried out a £8,000 robbery in the centre of Tel-Aviv this morn- ing:

"The money represented the pay. roll of a diamond polishing fac! tory which the cashiers had just got from the bank. It is belier- Td that the robbery was the work of the Irgun Zrai Leumi, which is always well informed on all transactions of "movements and

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Dramatic Scenes Yugoslavs

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Nuernberg, Oct. 14.

Grand Admiral Doenitz, second and last Fuchrer

of the Nazi Reich, can have had few illusions as to the verdict which awaited him... On the night of May 10, following his cross-ex- amination by Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, Ameri can guards discovered in his cell a rope made from knotted bootlaces. They had been smug. gled in to him and it was clear that he meant to commit suicide..

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taken to be re-buried.

There was no disturbance, but This is only one of the entirely, to the very careful it was thought that the Allied питетоца stories which Col. measures taken by the Ameri- Military Government might take Burten C. Andrus,United can guards. These included the the procession, as permission was action against the organisers of States Cavalry, Governor of substitution of a transparent given for it to be held on condi Nuremberg. Prison since the composition for glass in each of tion that only familjes of the dead, trials began, can tell of his 14 1,610 windows.

men took part. months' guardianship of the Another prisoner who was A few minor scufies between major Nazi war criminals, first constantly trying to build up a pro-Italian groups

and prov at Mondorf, in Luxembourg, store of suicide instruments today in Gearizia an important Yugoslav individuals took place against the event of his being Col. Andrus. has accomplished condemned was Keitel, from a task of supreme difficulty whose mattress guards drew with an efficiency and tact jogged slivers of metal or which has made him one of the sharp nails on four separate best-known and best-liked mili- | occasions. tary figures at Nuernberg.

and later in Nuernberg.

No human hand could posst- bly have prevented the suicides. of Robert Ley, leader of the German Labour Front, and Dr. Conti, the former Nazi Minis- ter of Health. It is to his and his men's credit that such, in- cidents have not been repeated more often.

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example, Christine Schroeder, Hitler's former pri- vate secretary, who was brought into prison as a material wit ness, was discovered to have| sewn into the hem of her gar- ment. a tiny brass capsule con taining a phial of cyanide like that with which Himmler com- mitted suicide.

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Keitel's Fears Labourers working on the repair of the court house and leader in Georizia, sald today Colonel Corsini, pro-Italian prison buildings had left them that if the demonstration had been lying about. Keitel had picked allowed the anti-Tito Slovene them up and secreted them dur- Catholice, with whom Italian Na-2 Queen's Ed. C.. ing his periods of daily exertionalists have been in agreement cise.

for some months, would have Ever since his cross-examina: taken part, Carrying Yugoslav tion Keitel has known he would tags. be condemned, and feared the Slovenes have started moving out Some families of pro-Tito Tribunal might be moved, by of Georizia into the Yugoslav consideration of the sentences zone of Venezia Giulia, since the carried out against the German Paris decision awarding the town generals implicated in the "July to Italy, was announced. Reuter. 20" plot against Hitler's life, tổ sentence him to death by hang- ing.

He was prepared to take his life by any means, however primitive, rather than face this disgrace.

and Kleist complained officially to the Tribunal that they were not being treated in accordance i with the provisions of the For which of her former

Geneva Convention. leaders was the phial intended Many other "contraband"Others were as touchy as when men of the internal se- articles of this nature have small children about being curity guard found it on her? been found-by security guards treated with due deference to The razor-sharp hunting in the prison or at the ap- their rank by fellow prisoners knife which came whirling out proaches to it. These include of junior rank. of the dark from the prison a file and hacksaw which was rouf and embedded itself in the Į discovered sewn into the lid of wall a few inches from Goer- a suitcase being carried into ing, Keitel, and Jodl as they were being taken through an apen passageway for interroga- tion in the prison. For whose heart was in that intended?:

At that time there were 800 SS prisoners of war working on repairs to the courthouse, and the American guards were at such low strength, that the Colonel could allot only che guard to every 60 prisoners The mystery was never solved. Hess Tried Twice

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Arrogant Doenitz

Rundstedt “Lost”

when Rundstedt, due to be escort- A touch of light relies occurred

ed back to England, was "lost" in | the corridors of the court house. The guard was, alarmed, "Armed search partles were sent out. The Other extraordinary scence panic subsided. a few minutes have been enacted behind the later when the Field-Marshal was forbidding walls of Col. An-discovered calmly pacing in the drus's prison. Doenitz once re-sunshinë in the courtyard in fused, arrogantly, to eat in the front of the courthouse under the same room as Streicher, and completely uninterested eyes of was told he had better realise some ten American. guards, he was subject, to American None of them had recognised | military discipline and must do the German Field-Marshal's uni- as he was told.

form. Apparently they thought Kesselring, former Comman-him some eccentric officer of the der-in-Chief in Italy-in the Allied delegation. words of his guards "the big- Of all the military prisoners, gest cry-baby we ever met Keitel has given the least trouble, tried to ingratiate himself with if one excepts his suicidal ten- At one time, however, Rib- the Allies. He bowed and thank-dencies,-say-bis gaolers. He has bentrop's Own confederates ed Col. Andrus "for granting met misfortune with stoical cour- were so concerned about his | hiin, an interview?" every time'sage and. once sat bolt- upright depression and obvious tendency the Governor spoke to him, even three nights without sleep be to self-destruction that Hans if it were only to issue an order, cause he could not-lie down on Frankema, once Governor- Most of the high German the bed without a soft pillow ow- General of Poland, voluntarily | military leaders were difficult ing to a huge carbuncle on his such attempt. shared his cell to forestall any prisoners for Col. Andrus to neck.

cope with. Bundstedt complain- It was not until the American That there were no other ed he was not allowed to retain guard reported the matter to of attempts at suicide is probably his rank badges. Von Mann-ficials that he admitted to a doc→ due in large measure,

if not latein, Brauchitsch, Guderian for the pain he had suffered.

None of the other defendants has actually tried suicide with the exception of Hess who at tempted twice to hang himself while in British custody..

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Hess's 'Obsession

Enough has perhaps already been written of prisoners' Loibles and mannerisms, of Hess's refusal to see anybody in prison or ent anything owing to an obsession the Allies were trying to, poison him until it was first tried out on a "human guinea-pig," usually Bauckel,

Incidentally the prison staff's private and unofficial view 02 Hess's attacks of stomach, cramp, which occur so frequently and apparently agonisingly, is that he simulates these to escape boredom of sitting in court listen- ing to the proceedings,

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Guards have given nick-names to many of the prisoners, Goering, is known as, "Fatstuff" the impas- sive Raeder as "The Little Jap Streicher and Ley, when he was alive, as "The Golddust Twins," because they looked so alike in abject misery,

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-All, "in the prison, however, agreed that the sequitted Schacht was the most difficult, worst- mannered, most arrogant prisoner. While acquitted of complicity 1 with Hitler's evil doctrines, he had his own private "master race" theory. He once told the prison psychiatrist The Germans ere the greatest nation in the world, the Schachts are the greatest family in Germany, and it fea well-known biological fact that the third son of a family is the most brilliant

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