The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-01
Court Rules Hess Sane

Continued from Page D ly fiabbergasted today when they were told that Hess had been fool ing them all the time about his loss of memory.
 Hermann Goering said Bah, it isn't possible, it cannot be true" when informed by Major Douglas Kelley, American psychiatrist.
 Joachim von Ribbentrop dropped his hands Imply at his side and said "HeSS-you mean HeSS?"
 Better Than DOenitz
 Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, who himself tried to fake insanity as a British prisoner in the last war, smiled wryly and remarked, He certainly did better than I did"
 While defense attorneys croSs-ex- amined Maj. Gen. Erwin Lahousen, trying to shake his damaging testi- mony of yesterday about the NaZi murder plans, Hess listened intent ly, his clasped hands resting on the railing. He looked self-satisfied but serious, realizing it was no longer a game. Occasionally he exchanged remarks with Goering.
 Defense Attorneys subjected La hOusen to an intensive questioning, trying to undermine his testimony by proving that he was not as close ly connected with Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the German coun- ter-intelligence service, as he claimed.
 Reported Sabotage Plant
 Yesterday Lahousen told how Canaris had secretly tried to sabotage orders by Hitler and the high com mand to murder the French Gen. erals Maxine Weygand and Henri Giraud, to kill Russian commisSarS and Russian prisoners who were proven Communists and to foment revolt by Ukrainians so large numbers of Polish intelligensia could be killed
 Counsel for Fritz von Papen drew from Lahousen statement that vor Papen in conversation with Canaris opposed Hitler's violent methods. He added that Canaris considered Won Papen "a mitigating influence
 The cross examination was quiet with no threats of violence al- though the defendants were bitter toward LahouSen. Defense attorneys stood about 20 feet from the witness and addressed him through the multilingual phone system.
 KeiteFs Faith Revealed
 Questioned by counsel for Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Lahousen emphatically stated that Keitel as | chief of the nigh command would not tolerate any officer who did not share complete military and political obedience to Hitler. He said many generals expressed a negative atti- tude' toward these demands.
 Otto Noelte, Keitels counsel, tried to obtain testimony that Keitel ano the high command opposed use o1 the Gestapo and the Security Police In the Polish campaign. Lahouser ! answered there were objections by the high command to certain acts ot the Gestapo and s. D. Security Po- lice)."
 1 Lahousen told Noelte that he hac received oral, not written orders from Keitel for the attempted as- sasslnation of Weygand
 Noelte asked, how do you explain that nothing more was heard after the order was given to murder Wey- gand?"
 Weygand Pushed Behind LahouSen: "The only explanation l can offer is that things were hap. pening so rapidly that the Weyganc affair was pushed into the back ground"
 Why did nothing happen tc Weygand when he was brought tc Germany after his capture, if it wa. planned to eliminate him?"
 Lahousen: T can only say that attitudes toward persons change one day they are well considered and the next they are to be liquid ated."
 He said he did not know whether the order to eliminate Giraud came from Keitel or Hitler. He said Kei. tels meaning was clear when he gave the order to Canaris, although Lahousen couldn't state whether the exact word was to kill, liquid ate or dispose of"