NAZI LEADERS “THRIVING"

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24903, 17 June 1946, Page 5

NAZI LEADERS “THRIVING"

LIFE IN PRISON AT NUREMBERG “ EQUANIMITY SURPRISES .GAOLERS ’’ (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, June 15. “In spite of the. shadow of the gallows hanging over the 20 top-ranking Nazis, they are thriving on prison life,” says the Nuremberg correspondent of the Associated Press. “Their equanimity after the seven months’ trial surprises their gaolers. They eat like growing boys, sleep soundly, and have even broken off the habit of taking sleeping pills, which is a popular German practice. “Colonel Andrus, commandant of the gaol, describes the discipline of the prisoners as exemplary. They are exactly correct in the exchange of courtesies. They do not appear sullen, but rather to pride themselves on doing properly what is required. “Fraternisation between the prisoners is still strictly forbidden, which is probably just as well. At least half a dozen first-class grudges have been built up among them by evidence given during the trial. Their enmities are kept rather well hidden in the courtroom.

“Most of the prisoners have ‘turned avidly to religion, and have repudiated their former anti-religious attitude. They have frequently asked the chaplains for spiritual aid and some have made secret confessions.’’