Evening star., 1945-04-16
DR.. Manfred zapp,
Won Mackensen and
Kaiser's Son Captured
BY the Associated Press,

LONDON, April 16.-Dr. Manfred
Zapp, Nazi propaganda chief expelled
from the United States in 194l, has
been captured by American Sd Army
troops and European broadcasts last
night declared Prince August Will
helm and Field Marshal August Won
Mackensen also had been taken
prisoner.
One Of the most famous of I'm
perial Germany's militarists, Mar
shall Won Mackensen, 95 fought in
the Franco-PruSSian war and be-
came member of the great Ger
man general staff in 1882 The out
break of the World War found him
as commander of the German 9th
Army on the Russian front, where
he won decisive victories at Kutno,
Lodz and LoWicZ.
In 1915 he was given command
OF the Kaiser'S armies in Western
Galicia and was promoted to the
rank of field marshal. His greatest
victories were achieved in 19l6-17
when he overran Serbia and then
moved on to conquer most of Ro-
mania. At the end of the war
he was interned by the French
and was not released until Decem-
Der, 1919.
Van Papen Held in Europe.
Meanwhile Franz Won Papen,
crafty German diplomat, was re-
ported awaiting processing in
Europe as bona fide prisoner of
war. A Paris dispatch said supreme
headquarters would neither confirm
nor deny reports that the Nazi had
been flown to the United States.
The American 87th Division found
at Bad Blankenberg Gen. Vittorio
Foschini, formerly Mussolini's Min
lister of Information for the Italian
armed forces.
DR.. zapp, chief Nazi propaganda
agent in the United States from
1886 to 194l, was seized at Bad
Berka by troops of the 89th Division,
Associated Press Correspondent
Thoburn Want reported.
Formerly head of the Transocean
News Service. DR.. zapp said he no
longer was in contact with Nazi
leaders and that he could give no
clue as to Hitler's whereabouts. He
also claimed he had lost favor with
top Nazis after being expelled from
the United States, that he had
served l8 months on the Russian
front, and only recently had been
released to work on the American
sector for the German Foreign
Office.
Denies Part in Atrocities.
Thin, nervous and tugging at his
goatee, DR.. zapp said he did not fear
capture because he did not consider
himself connected in any way with
Nazi atrocities.
The German Foreign Office was
just moving some departments at
Bad Berka, miles south of Weimar,
when Sd Army troops swept into the
area. Correspondent Want reported
The Luxembourg radio reported
the capture of Prince Wilhelm, also
known as "Auwi." The fourth son
of the Kaiser, he once participated
in NaZi activities as a ReichStag
member and was the most active of
all Hohenzollern princes in the Nazi
cause.
A dispatch from Bad Blakenburg
quoted Gen. Foschini as saying
Benito Mussolini was spending his
days wagging his hard head and
muttering over and over Il am
just an empty bottle"
Gen. Foschini gave this picture
of a Debated Duce yesterday as he
told also of corruption, graft and
high jinks among his colleagues of
the Fascist hierarchy.
Gen. Foschini was seized along
with his wife and Count Ettore
Tolomei, 80-year-old former ad-
ministrator of the Southern Tyrol.
They said they were seized by the
German Gestapo early in 1914 at
Florence and taken to Germany,
where they were under guard until
a short time before the American
Sd Army tanks arrived.