Evening star., 1945-07-22
BY GEORGE TUCKER,

by OEohCE lUShEh,
Associated Press Foreign Correspondent.
MONDORF, Luxembourg, July 81.
One of the great dramas of the
postwar era Is being played out in
the rooms and corridors of the once
fashionable Palace Hotel where
Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering,
Joachim Won Ribbentrop, Grand Ad-
miral Karl Doenitz and 40 other
high-ranking Nazi officials and
Wehrmacht officers are being held
pending further disposition by the
Allied War Grimes Commission.
Stripped of their plumage, sur
rounded by barbed wire and ma
chine guns, they bear little resem-
blance to the "Supermen" who tried
to loot the world.
Col. B. C.. Andrus, commanding
officer, whose 391st Antiaircraft Bat
talon guards the enclosure and
garrisons the town, said:
I'VE stand for no coddling here
These men are in Jail. We have
certain rules, and those rules are
obeyed."
With Col. Andrus as conducting
officer, / went through every room
in the seven-story building for in
spection of the conditions under
which the once-mighty Nazis live.
Room SparseIy Furnished.
The once impeccable Ribbentrop,
who moved through salons of the
elite, occupied a bare single room
on the fourth floor. When he gazes
out his barred window, his view Is
of guard on a raised platform with
mounted machine gun.
He sleeps on a folding canvas cot
with straw mattress. There are no
mirrors, and no electrical current
is provided. When he wishes to
shave, one safety razor blade is
issued to him and taken away after
it has been used.
All panes have been removed from
the windows and replaced with un-
breakable substitutes, in keeping
with anti-suicide precautions. Rib
bentrop has one extra suit. His
room is furnished with small
chair, toothbrush and an alumni
mum drinking cup.
Capt. Hubert H. Biddle of Bremen,
Ohio. prison officer, said Ribbentrop
keeps his own room and makes his
own bed, since there are no orderlies
here.
"Ribbentrop is sometimes lacka-
daisical In this respect" Capt. Bid
die said, "and / have had him on
the carpet for 1t several times"
Goering's Chair Larger.
Goering, now In the hotel hospital
where an effort is being made to
lessen his dosage Of sedatives, has
a larger room across the hall from
Ribbentrop. 1t has identical fur
nishings except that Goering's chair
Is larger.
"He is so heavy he broke his
other chair" Capt. Biddle said.
Goering, who is suffering from an
attack of bronchitis, is being given
a gradually reduced diet of para
codeine. When he arrived, said
Col. Andrus. he was taking 20 times
the normal dosage of the drug.
The routine at the Palace Hotel
is almost identical with that of
penitentiaries in the United States,
with the exception that the only
movies are atrocity films and the
only amusements walking in the
sunlight and innocent conversation
Recently DR.. Walther Funk, former
president of the Reichsbank, was
permitted to lecture his fellow pris-
oners on the Importance of paper
currency.
The prisoners remain in their
rooms until breakfast at 7.30 am.
and. are free to attend English
classes or walk in the yard until
noon. Luncheon is at noon and
dinner at $50 pm. A typical menu
Is cereal, soup and coffee for break
fast; pea soup, beef hash and spin
ach for luncheon; powdered eggs.
potatoes, bread and chocolate or
tea for dinner.
Streicher Is Stunned.
When Julius Streicher arrived.
Admiral Doenitz and several others
refused to eat with him, saying they
considered him Germany's worst
criminal.
II fixed that" said Col. Andrus.
T told them the Wehrmacht and
Navy no longer existed, that even
their state no longer existed and
that they would eat with anbody
chose to place at their table"
There Is no abrupt cleavage In
ranks of the high Nazis held here,
such as there is at the prison camp
In Wiesbaden, but certain individ-
uals are held in contempt by their
colleagues, Capt. Biddle said. DR..
Robert Ley, the officer said, is
snubbed by most of the internees.
DR.. Hans Frank, former Nazi
governor of Poland, who made an
unsuccessful suicide attempt before
arriving here, is suspected of being
emotionally unstable Several times
when he has been i'll he has called
for priest, but waved him away
when he regained his vigor
Goering is reported to be shunnee
by almost everybody, despite his
jolly fat-man bearing and his bow
ing and scraping.
No Handshaking Allowed.
Ribbentrop mingles equally with
the Wehrmacht and the civilian in
! ternees. When ! saw him, the for