SIX NAZI SABOTEURS DIE IN CHICAGO
Training In Germany CHICAGO, October 27. How eight Nazi saboteurs were-care-f-ully trained in Germany to destroy American war plants -and railway utilities was described by Ernest Burger at the trial of six Chicagoans on clrarges of treason and aiding saboteurs. Burger and another were jailed and the remainder executed. . The first Government witness, Burger, said that three connecting railways of the Alcoa aluminium plants were specially earmarked for sabotage. He and others -were trained in Germany in the handling of explosives and incendiaries, the buying, mixing and igniting of chemicals, the making of timing devices and detonators from pen and pencil sets and watches, and in practising landings from rubber boats on a lake. They toured the German Industrial areas, learning how to sabotage transformers, locomotives, and cars, and were even given forged draft and social security cards establishing false identification in the [United states.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 30, 30 October 1942, Page 5
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151SIX NAZI SABOTEURS DIE IN CHICAGO Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 30, 30 October 1942, Page 5
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