ROAR FOR GERMAN TRIAL.
Received Sunday, 7 p.m. FRANKFURT, Oct. 5. The United States military government has announced that Schacht, von Papen and Fritsche would be required to register under the German denaziftcation law like anv otlier German adult in the American zone. It added that those acqnitted would henceforth be sjxbject to German law and the German autliorities. Germans, under the regular denazification procedure, were liable to a maximum sentence of ten years' imprisonment if classed as major offenders. The Associated Press correspondent in Berlin reports that 5000 Germans heard and endorsed the demands by German officials from the Russian zone that the three acqnitted — Schacht, Fritsche and von Papen — should be handed o\-er to the Germans for trial, also the seven who escaped the death ] sentence and were imprisoned. The rallv was the biggest and noisiest in Berlin since the war. The crowd roared acclamation when the speaker cried: "We are the people 's court, not like those learned men in Nuremberg! "
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 October 1946, Page 5
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