The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-10-18
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it sums up in cold legal form Allied
fury over Nazi outrages. and II
forces the men accused OF RESPONSE
bility to answer for their acts.
The Nszis and their high com.
mand associates are blamed official
ly for the brutal slaughter OF about
l0.000.0 900 helpless persons, civil.
ians and prisoners OF war
or 100000 Jews who came un.
der Nazi domination in and out OF
Germany, the document asserts,
100000 disappeared. most OF
them deliberately put to death by
Nazi conspirators,
The Nazis and their associates
are accused also Of.
OF torturing civilians TO obtain
information.
or putting civilians under pro
tectiye arrest in the most un.
healthy and inhumane conditions"
OF mass murders OF defenseless
people by gassing and shooting.
Of incredibly cruel scientific" eX-
perimcnts OF women,
OF drawing the blood Of children.
or shooting hostages, ill-treating
and wurdeTing war prisoners and
OF plundering or wiping out by
who.esa destruction the cities and
towns of lands they occupied.
American prisoners. officers and
men, were murdered in Normandy
during the summer of 1874 and in
the Ardennes in December. 1874
the official document declares.
American prisoners were starved,
beate i and otherwise mistreated in
numerous stalags tprison camps),
in Germany and in the occupied
countries. particularly in 1913, 1914
and 1876"
The "a men named as defendants
were the highest in Adolf Hitler's
Nail government TO he taken alive.
Among them are Hermann GoerinS,
Rudolph Hess. Joachim Won Rib
bentfop Robert Ley. all key Hitler
officials, Generals Wilhelm Keitel
and Alfred Jodl;. Admlrals Karl
Doenitz and Eric Raeder; industri-
alists Gustav Krupp Won Bohlen
ind Halhach; financier Hjalmar
Schacht.
Against most OF them the indict.
ment makes four sweeping, general
accusations: % crimes against
peace in starting the war. (2) war
crimes in violation OF the accept.
ed laws of war. 49, crimes against
humanity which include the Jewish
prosecutions, and ca conspiring
together to commit these crimes.
After these four general counts
are laid down with details OF sup
porting evidence, the names OF the
individuals are listed together with
the specific counts on which each
Is to be tried.
The "a defendants named in the
wa crimes indictments handed up
here today are: Hermann Wilhelm
Goering, reichsmarshal, No. 2 Nail
and air force chief; Joachim Won
R~bertrop, foreign minister: Ru-
holt Hess, No. 3 Nazi: Wilhelm Kei-
tel, fed marshal and chief OF the
high tommand; Alfred Jodl, col
onal.gcneral and chief OF the army
staff: Karl Doenitz, grand admiral
and rmmander-in-chief OF the Ger
man navy; Robert Ley, Nazi labor
front leader.
Erich Raeder, grand admiral and
former commander of the navy.
Gustav krupp Won Bohlen Ind
Halbach, industrialist; Hjalmar
Horace Greeley Schacht, former
economics minister and Reichsbank
president: Walther Funk. former
Nazi press chief and Reichsbank
president: Franz Won Papen. the
Grey Fox" OF Nszi diplomacy; Ern-
est Kaltenbrunner chief of the Nazi
security police; Alfred Rosenberg.
chief prophet Of the Nazi phi'oso-
ply.
Hans Frank. governor general in
the Polish occupation: Martin
Bormann. storm troop chief, Hit
ler's deputy: Wilhelm Frick. Nazi
protector" for Bohemia and Mora
via: Fritz Sauckell, IS and SA gen
eral. Albert Speer. Nazi munitions
minister; Arthur Seyss-lnquart.
gauleiter for the Netherlands: Ju-
Illus Streicher. number one Nali
Jew-baiter; Hans Fritzsche. propa-
gandist: Constantin Won Neurath,
protector fer Bohemia and Mora.
via; Raldur Won Schirach. Hitler
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