Detroit evening times., 1945-05-13
WdrCrinnindfs
Bag Growing
Dietrich. Dsrnend,
Maybe Hirmler Held

Maybe Hirmler Held
LONDON. May - TNS)-Ad-
ditionsl prominent Nazis and
Quislines. including the SIS Gen
Sepp Dietrich and the French
"Gestspo Chief Joseph Darnand
became prisoners in Allied hands
TO-DAY
"a CBS Paris Broadcast said
Germany $ gestapo director and
interior minister Heinrich
Himmler was reported 70 be in
-lfsntis, . Tire report SAID
"Fuehrer Adm. Karl Doenitz
had turned HlmmIer over 10
British troops IN the FlenShurg
area. However, supreme Allied
headquarters in Paris sand there
appeared 10 be no. foundation
for the report.
The American broadcssung
station in Europe as heard by
CHS. said Franz Ritter Won Epp.
Nazi chief ip-Rsparia and -ene
of the original Hitler beer hall
gang was captured in Austria
today
While the roundup continued,
Allied authorities IN Germany
were disclosed officially 10 be in
vestigsting charges against Doc
nitz and doSsier presumably
was being prepared also on the
record Of Reichsmarshal Goerlng.
CHARGE AGAINST DoENITZ
In the case OF DoenitZ. the
Allies sought particularly 10 ascer-
tain authenticity OF the wide
spread belief that the admiral
had ordered U-boat captains not
20 take any prisoners but 10 Kill,
kill. kill
II the evidence now being ac-I
cumuiated warrants indictment, II
was stated Doenttz viii be tried
as an accused ws criminal before
q joiat Allied tribunal.
The official announcement that
an Investigation Deenitz is
Under way dispelled report cir
culated in the United States that
a decision in his case already had
been reached
The Allied War Crimes Advis-
ory Commission, sitting In Lon
don, thus far has made no official
announcement OF decisions in the
cases of DoenitZ. Goering or any
other individual Nazi.
REDS WANT DIETRICH
The possibility was foreseen
that Russia may request the de-
livery into her hands OF the
ruthless Gen Dietrich. captured
by the American Seventh Army. !
The Russians hold Dietrich re-
sponsible for the slaughter of
more than 10000 Soviet war pris-
oners and civilians in the Kharkov
area.
Latest OF the Quislings to fall
into Allied hands was Darnand,
former head of the Vichy militia
and often called the French
Himmler." Darnand was cap
tured in northern Italy last Sun
day, but the announcement was
withheld until today.
Darnand was taken with his
principal aide and 200 of his
French Fascist militiamen - all
that remained OF force OF about
5000.
Among the top Nazis whose
fate has not been positively deter
mined are Hitler himself, Propa-
former Foreign Minister Joachim
for mer Foreign Minister Joachim
Won Ribbentrop and Nazi labor
front chief, Robert Ley.
sTREICHER MISSING
Also among the missing were
Alfred Rosenberg, the race theo-
rist, and julius Streicher, notori-
Gus pogrom-maker.
The wars foremost Quisling-l
Pierre Laval of France-was a
fugitive in Spain, as were the Bel
gian Nazi leader, Rex Degrelle.
and the German ambassador 10
Vichy. Otto Abetz.
The original Quisling Mai Nid-
kun Quisling of Norway. was a
prisoner in Oslo, while his police
minister. Jonas Lie. was reported
20 have committed suicide. Josef
Terboven, German commissar for
Norway. also was a suicide. while
the Reich commissar for Holland,
Arthur Seyssineuart. was a pris-
oner in The Hague
HENLEIN SUICIDE
The Czecho slovak Quisling
Konrad Henlein. had killed himself
while the Serbian and Croat pup
pet preniers, Milan Neditch and
Ante Pavelich. were in iails. The
former Hungarian regent Adm.
Nicholas Horthy, was q prisoner
In Allied hands and the aged
Vichy chief Of state, Marshal
Henri Petain, was awaiting trial
for treason IN Paris.
Germany former finance mini
star Dr 1Nalfhpr Funk was ran