Evening star., 1945-05-20
Rosenberg, Arch Nazi
And Crusader. Against
Russians, Captured
War Criminal Disputes
Expected TO Hasten
Meeting Of Big ;
By the Associated Press.

LONDON. May 19.-Dr. Alfred
Rosenberg, arch-philosopher of
Naziism and leader of Ger,
many's anti-Russian crusade" !"
has been caught in the Allied
dragnet of fugitive Nazi lead
ers, a dispatch from the British
I'd Army front said tonight.
Rosenberg, sometimes called Hit
ler's father confessor" and Reich
minister for former German-occu-
pied Eastern Europe, was found in
a Flensburg Hospital, British Off
Ger said, as the search went on for
Heinrich Himmler, Nazi hangman
Himmler had been reported in
Flensburg.
Meanwhile. diplomatic quarters
said the involved problem of just
who is going to try big-sfot Ger
man war criminals may speed a
meeting of the Big Three leaders.
Russia Creates Problem.
Russia's long standing refusal to
join the 16-nation War Crimes
Commission has posed problems Of
pressing Importance since most of
the German war criminals are fall
ing into Anglo-American hands.
President Truman, Prime Minis
ter Churchill and Premier Stain,
diplomatic sources said, may take
up the problems of the ultimate
disposition of Nazi war criminals.
According to a high British off,
Ger, Rosenberg was taken into GUS
tody by British garrison troops in
the house cleaning of Grand Ad-
miral Karl Doenitz' headquarters
at Flensburg. He was in hospital
with sprained ankle.
Rosenberg, who wrote hundreds
of treatises on anti-Semitism and
as director of the Nordic Faith
Movement was the force behind the
Nazis' attack on Christianity, had
the fancy Nazi title Of director of
philosophic outlook"
Urged Attack on Reds.
His was the job of intoxicating
the Nazi philosophy into German
education and he was deputy COM
missioner for education. 1t was
Rosenberg who supposedly put the
bug in Hitler's ear to attack Russia
and it was this which did much
to bring about the downfall of both
Rosenberg, a one-time White Rus
sian, Hitler, and the entire NaN
regime.
The British officer said Rosen-
berg's wife and daughter, about 20
years old, also were taken into GUS
today by an infantry brigade of the
11th Armored Division, apparently
dispatched by Supreme Headquar-
ters officials who have headquarters
in the German luxury liner Patria
a mile or SO off Grand Admiral Karl
Doenitz's compound area.
Meanwhile, Allied authorities
rounded up new batchess Of suspect
ed criminals.
Rudolf Beran, premier of Czech
oslovakia in 1938-39, and a Czech
oslovak banker named Kulis- -Randa,
have been arrested as collaboration
lists, the French press agency said.
A Florence dispatch reported the
arrest of Peter Koch, an Italian
wanted in Rome as afmajor war
criminal responsible for the torture
of Italian patriots.
Commission to Meet.
On May 81, the War Crimes Com
mission will meet, officially to dis
cuss the best methods of bringing
about close contact between the
member governments and the COM
mission itself.
But sources close to the commits
sion reported that the conference
would face the involved demands
of member nations for custody and
trial of individual prisoners on the
various war criminals lists. In
many cases these overlap and con-
f1ict.
The conference also may attempt
to reach an agreement on the pro-
cedure for trials and perhaps fix
standards of punishment for the
different degrees of war crimes.
Russia, however, is interested in
these problems since she already
has listed as war criminals some of
(See WAR CRIMINALS, Page A-5.)