The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28
Nazis Executors ofU.S. Pilots First On Trial

one of them the successor to Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering as commander of the German air force, committed suicide rather than face possible trial as war criminals.
 A third, Albert Gittle Hitler) Forster, who as Gauleiter of Danzig paved the way for German occupa- tion of the Polish corridor in 1889, surrendered peacefully to British lieutenant and a sergeant in a Hamburg hotel.
 In Forester's pocket was found a poison phial similar to the one with which GeStapo Chief Heinrich Himmler killed himself in British custody last week.
 The two latest Nazis to follow Himmler in suicide were Marshal Robert Ritter von Greim, who suc- ceeded Goerinr as commander of the Luftwaffe April 26, and Dr. Hugo Jury, Gauleiter of lower Aus tria and former social welfare min ister in the notorious Seyss-inquart government of Austria. A small, empty phial was found beside Greim's bed in Salzburg hospital, where he was confined for treatment of minor leg wound suffered during the final states of the battle of Berlin. The position of the wound indicated it may have been self-inflicted.
 Grem had been taken to Salzburg after being found in a LuftWaffe hospital near Kitzbuehel. He was wearing all his medals when ar- rested and appeared cooperative, a Paris dispatch said.
 Also caught up in the Allied net were two married sisters of Adolf Hitler and brother of Himmler. The sisters, found in the Bavarian Alps, were identified as Angela Hammitsch, 61, of Atm Enster, Austria, and Paula Wolf, 48.
 Himmler's brother, otherwise un- identified, was arrested by the Brit ish Second Army in northwest Ger many.
 From Rome came word that Col. Gen. He inrich Won Vietinghoff, German commander in the south west, finally was taken into custody last Wednesday, five days after his envoy officially surrendered his army to Marshal Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander.
 Six other generals and 1000 head quarters troops were taken into custody at their post at Bolzano Thursday, Rome said. No explana- tion for the delay was given.
 A BEG broadcast said other Ger man soldiers still at large in the ChemnitZ sector of southern Ger many were fighting something lige a civil war with civilians in the area.
 The troops were said to be plum dering towns and villages for food and supplies after being refused per- mission to cross into their Ameri- can-held orea as prisoners.
 So far they have not been taken by the Russians the broadcast said. Whether the Russians, too, have refused to take them is not clear"
 Radio Paris said Allied intelli- gence officers have discovered num- erous stores of arms and explosives intended for sabotage by the un- derground werewolf organization in Bavaria and Bohemia.
 A BEG dispatch, however, said the Allied occupation air force was be- ing distributed so that no part of Germany would be more than two minutes flying time away from an airfield in the event of any uprising.
 The force will consist of all types of aircraft from communication planes to heavy bombers," the dis patch said. Flyers will stand ready to help deal with any revolt and will be an integral part of the ma chinery for enforcing, if need be, law and order.