TREASON TRIAL
ALLEGED PLOT IN NAZI GERMANY ATTEMPT TO OVERTHROW HITLER. TWENTY-ONE PERSONS CHARGED By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, November 8. The Berlin correspondent of the “News Chronicle” says that, following lhe treason trial held in the People’s Court recently, when four Communists were sentenced for an alleged plot to create a popular rising, the scene is being set in the same arena after Christmas for a tribunal surpassing the Leipzig fire trial. Twenty-one persons will be charged in camera of high treason, involving a plot to overthrow Hitler and substitute for the Nazi regime a Government prepared to collaborate with Russia. Death sentences will be demanded.
The chief accused is Ernst Nicksch, confidential agent of the late Chief of the General Staff. General von Seeckt, whe opposed Hitler’s enmity toward the Soviet.
The secret police arrested Nicksch’s wife and a score of his friends in 1937 and held them without trial. One committed suicide in his cell.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 November 1938, Page 5
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158TREASON TRIAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 November 1938, Page 5
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