MAZIS HAVE LAST MEAL

Chronicle (Levin), 16 October 1946, Page 5

MAZIS HAVE LAST MEAL

EXECUTION DETAILS SECRET Received Wednesday, 10 a.m. LONDON, Oc-t. 15. The condemned Nazi war criminals have had what is expected to be their last meal in the prison— supper consisting of potato salad, cold sausage, black bread and tea — -says a Nuremberg message. None of the men have yet been officially told the hour of their execution, according to an American prison security officer at an interview with pressmen in Nuremberg this evening.

| Asked if the prisoners had | any impression at all that this | was their last night, and that ! they would be taken t6 the j gallows at any moment, the officer replied that he.did not know. The eight Allied correspondents who are witnessing the hangings will be briefed_ this afternooh, and will remain in the prison until after the executions. Briefing officers refused to I confirm the time of the execuI tion. They said they had been Iforbidden to answer any ques- ; tions regarding the time of the ] executions, the details or the j arrangements for the burials. Goering told the cloctor: "I

have iio fe'ar and wiil'tci the end show dignity.'' Ribbentrop told h ddetof he was convinced he frad dofie the right thing when he had presented Germany's refusal of the British ultimatufti in Sejltembef, 1989. "I Would do it again," he added. , On the last day ten of the eleven condemned men turned to reading the Bible, but the atheist, Rosehberg, refttsed religious consolation. A prison official, according to Reuter's Nuremberg corres- 1 pondent, said: "There haye not : 'been any hysterical outbursts.Most of the men ate tfying to compose their nerves by reading and smoking. Kaltenbrunner becaffie a bit irritable about his cigarette supply, and complained about having to roll his owh." All the condemned Nazis were yesterday asked whethef they believed that Hitler was dead. All replied in the affirmative. Mr. Attlee stated in the House of Coffimons this afternoon that the only photographs of the executions would be stills of the bodies taken aftei" death by the official photographer. The Allied Control Council had not yet decided whether the pictures shoiild be published, but he personaily was strongly opposed to publication.