SCHACHT ARRESTED

Chronicle (Levin), 9 October 1946, Page 5

SCHACHT ARRESTED

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Left Nuremberg to Stay With A Friend 9 VON PAPEN PREFERS CELL

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Received Wednesday, 11.5 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 8.' The Stuttgart police announced that they have arrested Schacht in an industrialist's castle and hrought him to Stuttgart prison charged under the denazification laws. ' •me arrest was ordered by the German Ministry of the State of Wurtemberg Baden and the President of the State of Wurtemberg Baden. The President of the Denazification Court of Backnang was present at the arrest. Backnang is a small village near Stuttgart where Scnacht planned to live with an old friend. Schacht protes3ted against ihe arrest producing a letter from the American Military GovernmenL granting him freedom of movement ihroughout the' zone. The arrest oecurred at the residence of Paul Reusch, a German mining magnate and longtime friend of Schacht whose counsel, Dr. Rudolph Dix, will today bring the arrest to the notice of the Ailied Control Commission. The British United Press correspondent says Schacht, when he left Nuremberg prison yesterday, told nis lawyer: "I do not want to be tried at Nuremberg because the courts are prejudiced. I want to be tried at Stuttgart." Von Papen's daughter, Stepamc, said that he, after hearing the uews of Schacht's re-arrest, decided nnt tn leave the Nuremberg Palace

of Justice, where he is occupymg the "guest cell." Six of the eleven condemned Nazis took advantage of the privilege of seeing one visitor for an ,-our for the last time. Goermg yesterday afternon saw his wife and returned to her his platinum weddmg nng, fearing that it would oe souvenired. Kaltenbrunner farewelled^ his mistress, who is mother of his two omidren. Sau9kel, this morning, i'arewelled his wife. The Associated Press' Berlin corlespondent says it is indicated thal the Nazi war criminals sentenced to miprisonment at Nuremberg will .jrooablv be confined in Spandau Prison in the British sector of Beri:n. Reuter's Nuremberg correspondmt reports that while in prison Funk was always eager for travei oooks. Goering, Raedar and Keitel have been reading shiny magazines, have ben reading shiny magazines, Ribbentrop a historical novel, and Sauckel, Seyss Inquart and Speer lave read Goethe, Schifier and itlier classics. Frank asks for books about- Catholic Bavaria. The Bishop of Chelmsford, Dr Henry Wilson, told the dioce-tan conference that the Nazis sentenced '.o death should have their sentences commuted to banishment ,f oi jfe, similar to Na^oleon's banishment. He added: "If for no othei reason, this gives them time for reoentance before facing God's judgnent." - . . Dr. Wilson expressed the onmion 'hat execution, especiallv by hangi.ng, would be a bltmder of farfpnphirip' eonsenuences.