Evening star., 1933-12-02
IS FACE NAz|S AK
IN TREASON TRIAL
Beheading Continues as Ber-
lin Press Gives Big Play
to U. S. Lynchings.
BY Cable to The Star.

BY Cable to The Star.
BERLIN, Germany December a
With six Communists beheaded in
Cologne Thursday and 10 more await
ing the ak in Dessau. attention turned
to the trial OF SO others In Berlin as
promising to give Germany its biggest
Yesterdays heads fell appropriately
on the day which the Christian portion
Of Germany sets apart to honor ST.
Andrew. eldest Of the u Apostles, who
was also beheaded.
German newspapers give only brief
mention of the beheadings. but give
elaborate front page displays to the
wave Of popular lynchings in the United
States.
The six Communists in Cologne met
their death for participating in street
was killed and two others wounded.
Trial PROCEEDS Slowly.
Berlin's mass trial is for a similar
sanguinary clash that occurred here on
policeman were killed. At that time both
parties were legal in Germany and
fighting for political control.
The trial has passed its seventh week
and the hearing Of witnesses has Just
started. The previous weeks had been
given over to speeches and the hearing
of defendants.
1t is in keeping with many bizarre
stories which followed the January
evening row, in which Hans Markowski,
now Nazi hero, and a policeman
named Sauritz, we're killed. The street
where the fight occurred has been re.
named for Markowski and both were
given a state funeral. The policeman
was given second one in Silesia when
it was discovered that he was a Cath
olic.
The Communists claim that Mar.
kowski was actually Communist shot
by the Nazis as disloyal while the story
generally believed, though proved to be
untrue, is that Markovski'S mother
buried him privately and that the
nower-covered casket was empty in the
state funeral.
Two Wounded Fatally.
A group Of Na1S carrying flags we're
returning from a parade to their homes
in Moabit. the Communist district of
eSerybody stsrted nes Tas eo on1 Msr shsn
kowsh and the policeman. with whom
he had stopped to talk, were wounded,
and they fatally.
In the Moabit General Court today,
the largest judicial building in the
world. each prisoner wore a cardboard
number OF his chest like a foot ball
player. They sat in two rows along each
side OF the wall banking the judges
bench. the numbers being consecutive,
With the German love for orderliness.
All the defendants appeared above
average intelligence. About one-third
were Enthusiastically Nordic blonds and
none showed Jewish features. Thirteen
were minors. No women were among
them.
The oldest, a d-headed man of
81 years, treasurer and keeper of arms
Of a Communist cell, was on the stand
denying ownership of pistol found
in one Of the houses from which the
shots came on the fateful night.
An appeal for pardon in behalf Of
six Of the prisoners was made to Gen.
Hermann Wilhelm Goering as minister
President Of Prussia. He did not de-
part from his rule OF non-interfer-
ence in the examination of Communists
Many Have Children.
Further facts ignored by the Berlin
newspapers regarding the 10 men await
ing beheading in Dessau. where one
Nazi was killed on February II, were
announced today. In the ordinary
course of procedure this spectacle
should be part Of the country's Christ
mas festivities. The doomed men range
in age from % to so years. Two are
coal miners and the others are factory
workers: All are married. one with
five children, two with three children,
three with two and the remainder with
one each. The Oldest has grandchildren.
An eleventh defendant, acquitted by
the court, was promptly seized by the
NaZis and put in a concentration
camp, which can be done without for
NAL charges or trial.
Measures against political opponents
of National Socialism continue with
severity unparalleled in German his
tory In Bavaria several Roman
Catholic priests have been arrested
and held for trial for speaking Of the
alleged cruel methods of the concen-
tration camps.
In Cologne. a workman who failed
to give the Nazi salute-now officially
rechristened the German salute-was
discharged The court ruled that he
voluntarily put himself outside the
new social order" and he has no
redress.
Concentration camps seem to have
become a permanent institution Of the
new Third Reich A new one has been
opened for habitual criminals as dis
tingushed from political malcontents.
Some new tenants have been trans
ferred from prisons after court trials,
but its chief advantage is that the
tenants can be sent without bothering
with police courts or other legal pro-
cedure. The intention is to separate
the habitual criminal from society for
the remainder of his life.
Copyright, 1889