Mercy Tempers Justice in Nuernberg Sentencing

World Press Hails Nuernberg Judgment Yon Papen Engineered Austria's Nazi Downfall, Lawyer Charges Against Chiefs The background of Fraiu von ground which was instrumental in •y th» Auoctoted Pr*»» I i Papen’s activities in Austria, the Nazi occupation of Austria. a demand He further recruited from the The press of both Allied and for- I which may lead to by the Austrian government that he Austrian Nazis thousands of young mer enemy countries ac- today be turned over for trial, was men who took their place in the claimed the principle laid down by outlined here yesterday by Dr. Austrian Legion, which had head- the International Military Tribunal Julius Christopher Gauss, inter- quarters in Munich and which national and threatened during the years to that the waging of aggressive war lawyer politician, who Vienna in 193S fust invade Austria and to take the is criminal and fled punishable by before the Nazis moved in. Austrian government by surprise. death. Dr. Gauss, now an American The Austrian government was But In Rome, H Buonsenso, or- citizen, indicated that he would forced during the years of 1934 and be a witness called 1938 to the Austrian and gan of Italy’s uomo willing if by occupy qualunque the He German borders forces (common prosecution. prepared by military man) movement, which this statement for The Star: and to watch out that the Aus- often has been accused of Fascist trian Legion should not provoke a tendencies, declared that Hermann By Dr. Julius G. Gauss forceful invasion by the Nazis. Goering and 10 other Nazi chief- After the assassination of Dr. He conspired also with the mem- tains would go to the gallows only Dolfuss by the Nazis In July, 1934, bers of the Vienese police depart- because they lost a war. Hitler appointed Franz von Papen ment. The press of the Soviet Union as new Ambassador to Vienna be- Hitler, on February 11, 1938, de- expressed surprise and perplexity, cause his former ambassador was livered an ultimatum to Dr. and the newspapers of France and Nuernberg of the Nazi Schuschnigg to come to Bertesgaden (Continued From First Page.) one of the Instigators occupied Germany reflected out- Putsch which resulted in the assig- and either accept his ultimatum or right anger at the acquittals of nation and the of many be invaded by the Nazis. Hitler Karl Doenitz (10 years)—would be murdering three of the 21 Nazi leaders in the all the threatened Dr. Schuschnigg that an taken to Berlin. Austrian patriots throughout dock. But while dissatisfaction was Austrian countries. Austrian Legion of 80,000 was ready Further Action Uncertain. shown with certain aspects of the Denies Germany Involved. to march into Austria with a com- The of whether any, or Judgment of the sentences the question Hitler formally denied that he and plete underground of S. A. and S. S. all, of the men would face to in common man paper was alone in acquitted his government were implicated in They wanted organize Austria action by German denazification a‘ and Its contention that vengeance the uprising and murdering of the Nazi state, Ambassador Von boards still was unsettled. Fritsche rather than justice presided at Austrian Prime Minister, Dol- Papen affirmed that he knew from told news con- Dj-. Nuernberg. defiantly yesterday's fuss, and excused himself by saying his own experience as Austrian Am- “Who ference that he to go before bassador how an under- among the judges was hoped that everything was organized by strong such a board and clear bis name there was in without sin?” the Roman news- Dr. Franz Rinterlen who was a for- ground organization with the German Austria and he knew that paper demanded. people. mer member of the Dolfuss govern- pretended Von said he couldn’t see It said the defendants "were Papen ment and Austrian Ambassador to the Austrian Nazis were so strong reason he should have to prosecuted for an imposing total of any why Rome. they could, in case of a plebescite, do such a thing and Schacht said decide the Anschulss for the crimes from which, the After Von took his office as Nazis. however, he would wait for Papen essential crime was missing—that belligerently Austrian Ambassador in Vienna, he Forced Abdication. someone to accuse him before he of having lost." continued where his predecessor left Dr. Schuschnigg wanted to fore- offered any defense. Better War off, but in a more careful and better stall a further increase of the Nazis Preparations Seen. And it he might have “The appeared form. in Austria by setting a plebescite gallows of Nuernberg,” H the chance. Dr. Wilhelm Hoegner, organized He together with Dr. for March 13, but on March 11, Von Buonsenso (good sense) said in Its Minister-President of Barvaria, said organized, “will serve Seyss-Inquart and Dr. Fishback— Papen again entered into the pic- editorial, only to induce that any of the three acquitted men the leaders of NAZI DEFENDANTS RECEIVE freedom certificates from Col. 8. C. Andrus, commandant of who was wanted by the Nether- ture by submitting a new ultimatum every Nation to pre- NUERNBERG.—ACQUITTED remaining in the American zone their wars defendants in the war the verdict. Left to Hans lands government for crimes com- from Hitler, and forced Schuschnigg pare better, to prosecute FREEDOM—The only three crimes trial the Nuernberg Jail, following right: would be placed before a denazifica- them mitted him during the Nether- to abdicate. with greater energy and speed, here to be acquitted yesterday by the tribunal receive their Fritsche, Col. Andrus, Franz von Papen and Hjalmar Schacht. tion board promptly, which he said by to lands occupation by the Nazis—the After Schuschnigg abdicated, the initiate them when they are in —AP Wirephoto by Radio Yesterday. would “certainly’’ mean "several of still S. A. and S. 8. in all Austrian prov- first deed of Von Papen was to use possession more fearful years at hard labor.” inces. Von Papen supplied Austria his underground which he built up weapons which guarantee victory— Hoegner called the acquittal of Nazi underground with money. for four years, to plunder and loot since it has now been proved that Von Papen “astounding,” and said With Dr. Fishback and Dr. Seyss- the Austrian economy, to arrest only the fteilure to win leads to he of the Justice in thought greying diplomat Nazi unions thousands of Austrian and punishment.” Sentencing the Third Inquart, he organized patriots Mercy Tempers Nuernberg of as “the real instigator This a and created war. Two admirals, in the factories which worked for order the assassination of many me bonet government newspaper is complete description day, followed Hitler more closely and official ideologist and anti-Semitic Reich.” Erich re- rearmament in Austria, thousands of good Austrian citizens, Izvestia said that despite the short- of the sentencing of the Nazis, blindly than all the rest. Two monthi theorist, he edited the Voelkischer Karl Doenitz and Raeder, the German 10 and life Execution Being Arranged. with all his activities, he and to arrest Dr. Schuschnigg and comings of the verdict, it would parts of which were published in ago he told this court, “If I wen Beobachter for Hitler and wrote a ceive sentences of years so that are for in Austria a Nazi under- deliver him to the Gestapo. “play its role in the cause of the yesterday’s early editions. once more at the beginning I should book called “Myth of the Twentieth imprisonment, respectively. They Arrangements proceeding built up direct- the execution of the tribunal’s death moral and -defeat of fas- act once more as I did act even Century.” He was one of the are accused of building and political in the case of the staff would cism though I knew that at the end 1 Fuehrer’s earliest associates. ing Hitler’s navy in violation of sentences. A four-power commis- general and in cleansing the earth By Newbold Noyes, Jr. in Child Assailant to Pay should meet death on a bonfire.” This man’s active brain con- treaties. Doenitz receives sion made up of four military com- raise similar problems trying of its poisonous roots.” Star Staff existing Correspondent the Council other militarists. If is a tributed to a project which would his sentence with a tiny twitch of manders, appointed by in “Diverse protectors of fascism— Hess is ndt crazy, he great German at least $22,500 Settlement NUERNBERG, Oct. 1.—Justice have the Slav race relief at the corners of bis in Berlin to be responsible for the But to the public, from inmates of the Vatican to the actor. He could be either—or both destroyed by apparent By the Associated Press with was in in Nuernberg, the m*st astounding hired of the was strongly tempered This frizzle-haired forced abortions, compulsory birth tight drawn mouth. Raeder, how- executions, Nuernberg today. pens Hearst newspaper heavy-browed, about the trial was the ac- Oct. 2—James T. 40- control and the of ever, scowls at the bench be- The Council, which has authority thing JOLIET, 111., concern—mobilized all their forces mercy in this afternoon’s man of 47, with his sickly pallor and depopulation judges’ His fore his exit. to reduce or alter the sentences, but quittal of Von Papen. Lincoln, jr., 29, son of a wealthy in defense of the the minute climax to the unprece- permanent 5 o'clock shadow condi- cities through mass epidemics. making accused,” has Random interviews around the Cleveland industrialist, will pay which the war one of its most sentence is death.

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