TREASON TRIAL
SENTENCES IN GERMANY
FORMER TRADE UNION
LEADERS
(Received June 10, 1.20 p.m.)
LONDON, June 9.
A secret trial before a dreaded special' tribunal in Berlin resulted in two former trade union leaders being sentence^ t0 death, a third to life imprisonment, a fourth to fifteen years' imprisonment, and a woman organiser to twelve years' imprisonment, all for high treason.
The "Daily Herald," which states that the news leaked out from Germany, declares that beatings, interminable third degree methods, and refusal of doctors when the accused were ill were part of the ill treatment meted out to them since 1935, but this failed to break, their spirit, for all of them, when before the judges, boldly proclaimed their Left Wing convictions.
The "Herald" adds that whatever faked evidence was produced against the other accused, Max Maddalena, a former Deputy, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, could not possibly have been guilty of treason because he and his wife left Germany months . before Herr Hitler seized power, and then, in March, 1935, he decided to travel through Germany to see what the conditions were, and was arrested within twenty-four hours.
The names of those sentenced to death are Robert Stamm, former Deputy, and Adolf- Rembeke, former trade union official and journalist.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 136, 10 June 1937, Page 10
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211TREASON TRIAL Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 136, 10 June 1937, Page 10
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