NAZI OFFICERS TO BE HANGED FOR MASS MURDERS

Grey River Argus, 12 April 1948, Page 5

NAZI OFFICERS TO BE HANGED FOR MASS MURDERS

(Rec 9.50) LONDON, April 10. An American war crimes tribunal after what is called the biggest “murder trial in history,” has sentenced to death, by hanging, 14 former German S.S. senior officers of the Nazi extermination group. The court found them guilty, on Friday, of killing more than 1.000,000 antiNazis in German-occupied countries. Those condemned included MajorGeneral Otto Ohlendorf; BrigadierGenerals Erich Naumann and Werener Braune; Colonels Paul Blobel, Walter Blume, Martin Sandberger and Willv Siebert. The court sentenced Brigadier General Heinz Jost and Lieutenant Colonel Gustav Nosske to life imprisonment. and sentenced two other former officers to 20 years imprisonment, and two others to 10 years’ imprisonment. It is the sternest judgment ever given in Nuremberg. The judgment stated: “Hitler, with all his cunning and utter wickednesss, would have remained as harmless as a gossiping fool if he had not had .such .men as the other accused at his service. . The judgment directed attention Io former S.S. Major-General Otto Ollendorf's double occupation as lecturer, scholar, humanitarian on one side and on the other, as leader of an organisation which he admitted had exterminated 90,000 persons.