FRITSCHE GIVES EVIDENCE

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24913, 28 June 1946, Page 7

FRITSCHE GIVES EVIDENCE

PROPAGANDIST WITH

GOEBBELS

u . NUREMBERG, June 26. uans Fritsche, Goebbels’s propaganda lieutenant, entered the witnesse war crimes trial to-day. He 15 p accused to do so. p?J ltscl ?e sai . d he joined the Nazi arty with millions who thought that serv ’ing a good cause in *n’cn they would sacrifice all to save ** but Hitler sullied this honour *J nurders which no necessity, war ’’LPtnerwise, could justify.” tntai c ft e sa * d t * lat he considered a victory impossible from tha* rst day of the war - He claimed tn?l ne iY er in 1000 speeches before the k,? ro ph one did he attempt to awaken £? e< ? against the English, French, fnnericans, or Russians. He spoke tJ^ InS TT the governments or state sys- % added that the German radio Vpli Churchill- President Rooseent and Mr sta,in 80 popular as efficibidrP 1611 that the newspapers were foraaen to mention them except in PcrmL j Cases ar, d then with express Na ] ?u rge red poster signed by von urath announcing the execution of ne members of the Czech resistance

movement was shown when von Neurath was under cross-examination by the Russian prosecutor. Von Neurath blamed his deputy, Frank, and said that his own name had been wrongfully used. He ;.lso declared that the arrest of between 6000 and 8000 Czech hostages had been carried out by the Gestapo without his knowledge and an order for the closing of Czech universities had been issued by somebody who used his name - , •-> U 4 uVon Neurath’s counsel said that his client was suffering from serious heart disease and was no longer in a position to do full justice to the questions