MANY WITNESSES SOUGHT

Chronicle (Levin), 6 March 1946, Page 5

MANY WITNESSES SOUGHT

NAZIS' EFFORT TO PROVE . "INNOCENCE" Received Tuesday, 7.30 p.m. NURxMvli-ioKG, i,aarch 4. The War Crimes Tribunal toaay be gan the hearing of applications for i ;otai of 51 witnesses 011 behalf of Kai ten brunner, , Frick, Rosenberg, „ aia--ranK — a total which tne Court expeot ed severely to cut down. Kaitsnorunner wanted the vritnesse:, to prove that he had many times mte, vened on behalf of the Jewish and otiie. internees, and that he had no jurxsdic ticn over the Bachau camp and did no give tlie order for the destruetion o. Dachau by bombing. His counsel claimed that he had con ducted an active peace policy after 19io and had been in contact with United States agents regarding it. Frick desired a testimony that he was mnocent of complicity with the Naz.Farfc3r*§^purge of 1934 and the Jevvisl. pogrom of 1938, because "Hitler haa .-•raiisferred the police yover completeq fco Goering and Himmler. ' ' Rosenoerg, naming 11 witneiise^ claimed through his counsel that he ha t'ought Hitler* s policies of slave laoour art pillaging, and propaganda and evei totalitarianism itself. Frank, the former Governor-Genera of Occupied Poland, sought to call Geu eral Ritter von Bpp to prove that Kit ler regarded him as a deadly enenrand a traitor who worked hand in giov> with the Poles. He also wanted an other witness to testify that he used in fluence v/ith Hitler to improve the con ditions for the Poles. The Nuremberg correspondent of tn Associatecl Press says that Doenitz wi' attempt to secure evidence- from Au miral Nimitz showing that Unite States submarines in the Pacific wer ordered to sink merchant vessels with out warnmg, and to avoid any rescir work endangering the submarines o the crews. It was learned that Doemt iwas applying to the Tribunal for wrk ten answers- to his questions from Ad miral Nimitz. ,