To Marry Before They Are Executed
Received Wednesday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 8. An armless girl and her one-legged fover, awaiting execution for collaboration with the Germans, have . been granted permission to marry in gaol, says the British United Press Copenhagen correspondent. Police and relatives will "be witnesses. The couple, Joergen Lorentzen and Anna Lund, lost their linibs in a last ditch fight against Danish resistance groups. When the war ended, Lorentzen, whom the Germans appointed chief of the Copenhagen police, was found guilty of torturing and beating Danes. Anna Lund was found guilty of beating prisoners on Lorentzen 's orders. She will be the first wonian war criminai to he executed in Denmark.
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Chronicle (Levin), 9 December 1948, Page 7
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