Evening star., 1943-11-26
Behind the Foreign News
Allies Listing Maxi Criminals
TO Face Trial After War
Russians Careful
In Collecting and
CotoIoging Details
Ry RLAIR ROLES.


- g European governments have be-,
gun to draw up the lists of Naza
and QuisGng war criminals they ex-I
pect will be tried in accord with
the War Criminals Declaration of
the Moscow Conference, which pro-
vides that the criminals be dealt.
with in the countries where their
acts occurred.
The Ministry of Justice of the
Belgian exile government is record
ing names of Germans accused of
violating "the common laws" of
Belgium President Eduard Benes
of Czechoslovakia has remarked
with satisfaction that the Allies are
to permit punishment for crimes
which were declared unpunishable
after the World War. The Nor
wegian government is cataloguing
the Quisling co-operators in its
country.
The European determination to
have vengeance has been injected
into the United Nations Relief and
Rehabilitation Conference in At
lantic City. UNRRA tentatively
has adopted a proposal by Con-
stantine Fotitch, Yugoslav Ambas-
sador, that Germans forcibly set
tied or colonized in the homes of
Jews and other natives of occupied
countries should not be returned
to Germany without the consent Of
the government of the occupied
country concerned.
Details Are Collected.
The Russian government has been
more asSiduous than any about
collecting details of crimes and
cataloguing the criminals. 1t has
prepared list of 79 criminals, rang
ing from colonies to lance corporals,
from an economic leader to a blast
furnace chief. accused of RESPONSE
bility for destruction in seven Do
nets Basin industrial towns devel-
oped under the Five-Year Plan.
Some of these crimes were per-
petrated in the city of Stalino
where the Russians have made an
exhaustive inventory of destruction
since the Red Armies recaptured
the city. Statistics abound in the
Russian recording of guilt. The So
viets say:
Before retreating from Stalino
the Axis demolished 3,76l houses
with total living space of 1,207,470
square meters, l13 schools, 62 kin
dergartens, 800 stores, the Summer
and Winter Theaters, the Palace of
Pioneers, the radio theater, the Mu-
scum of the Revolution and the art
gallery.
They burned down the Children'S
Hospital which had 1000 beds; the
Voroshilov Clinical Hospital, 1000
beds; y other medical institutions
with total of 1000 beds, andsfve
polyclinics The Medical Institute,
where 1000 students were enrolled,
was "SmaShed." They burned down
the buildings Of the Khrushchev In
dustrial Institute. where $4,000 men
and women studied.
Small Items Listed.
The SovietS have recorded the
small as we'll as the great items.
They say the Nazis burned down
the Stalino carbarn with 80 cars
in it, destroyed 35 kilometers of
streetcar track, 35 kilometers of
streetcar trolley wires and 10 new
trolley busses. The Germans are
accused, in their attempt at eradi-
eating Stalino, of demolishing the
Palace of Culture, the Engineers
and Teehnicians Club, the Factory
Apprenticeship School, the Stalino
Olyaninovo Mushketovo Rutchen-
kovo colling and chemical works
and the Stalino metallurgical works
In the Stalino region the Ger
mans, say the Russians, demolished
l04 coal pits and spread over the
ground houses totaling 1,126000
square meters of living floor space
In the town Of Kramatorsk, the &C
cuSation states, the Nazis burned
down 204 of the 247 apartment
houses for workers at the Novo-
ktamatorsk Notwithstanding works.