SUICIDE-PROOF CELLS FOR NAZI LEADERS

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5288, 28 December 1946, Page 5

SUICIDE-PROOF CELLS FOR NAZI LEADERS

I Hess To Break Stones K And Chop Wood E LONDON, Dec. 27. Kai The severi Nazis sentenced at Bpuremberg — Hess, Funk and ■gtaeder (life imprisonment), Schi■B»ch and Speer (20 years), von HWeurath (15 years) and Doenitz KtlO years), will shortly be conB|ned in tbe grim fortress prison St Spandau, says Reuter's Berlin Bprrespondent. Their cells will be ^Bade as suicide-proof as experiKfice can make them. They will 'Sive only Allied guards. 'fiSchirach, aged 30, Speer, aged 41, Shnhz. aged 54, and possibly Hess, fl».d •"'«), will do hard labour like 99ne-hi eaking and wood-chopping. S| seven, who are still at NuremSp. tre already wearing convict m i^Kmx hundred "prisoners will leave '^ftmluu to make way for the Nazis. ^■iir cells will have concrete floors ■li tiiin linoleum, and bed, table, and wall shelf. Otherwise the and ceilings will be bare. ElecSf lamps Will be outside the cell fpg s. Thick plastic replaces glass rH:tov;s. SKtii prison ers will be allowed and writing materials, but ^Saldy no tobacco. They will be ^^■ived a reasonable amount of con^ftatiun, but will have visitors drastic supervision. The prison W bc under Four-Power control, Sft British, American, Soviet and ^■Jch directors rotating in comBBd month by mo-nth. K soven show signs of physical t^Srioration as the result of age or H confinement.