HEADS ARE ROLLING
(Press Assn.-
ruthless nazi executions causing much comment BRUTAL SENTENCES
_By Telegraph— Copyright).
Berlin, Nov. 30. "Heads are rolling," yelled ' the newsboys who were rapidly selling newspapers, describing the beheading of six young Communists hy a tophatted, frock-coated executioner, for shooting two Nazis. The mass execution is wiidely discussed, many approving of General Goerdng's refusal of a repri-eve for "sub-humans" guilty of murder of Brown Shirts. lOthers douht the wisdom of the execution and fe,air that Nazi ruth^ lessness will decree a similar fate for the ten Gommunists who were sentehced to death for the murder of a Nazi, for which three havC already been beheaded, although -the Judige •pointed out that eiight were convieted rwfeo were not involved in the actual shooting. . no The Hamlburg Cour.t tryang- 26 Communists for slightly- wounding a .Nazi, imposed a sentence varying from.' nine fo fifteen years on seven, and the remainder to shorter terms.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 704, 2 December 1933, Page 5
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155HEADS ARE ROLLING Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 704, 2 December 1933, Page 5
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