TRAINING OF SABOTEURS
(P.A.) CHICAGO, October 27. How eight Nazi saboteurs, carefully trained in Germany, were to destroy American war plants, railways and utilities were detailed by Ernest Burger at the trial of six Chicago persons who were charged with treason and aiding the saboteurs of whom Burger and another were sent to prison and the remainder executed.
The first Government witness, Burger, said three Alcoa aluminium plants and the connecting railways were specially earmarked for sabotage. He and others had been 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 the practising of rubberboat landings on a lake. They had toured German industrial areas, learning how to sabotage transformers, locomotives and cars and had even been given forged draft and social security cards for establishing false identification in the United States.
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Southland Times, Issue 24889, 31 October 1942, Page 5
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155TRAINING OF SABOTEURS Southland Times, Issue 24889, 31 October 1942, Page 5
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