The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-15
Nazi Minister
Found Hidind
in Hamburg
Nude Fugitive
Rounded-Up in
Intensive Monhunt
BY DANIEL DE LUCE

BY DANIEL DE LUCE
FIELD MARSHAL MONT
GOMERY'S HEADQUARTERS,
Germany. June Is - R)-Naxl
Foreign Minister Joachim Won
Ribbentrop was captured yester.
day as he slept nude in Hamburg
boarding house bringing to .
close the most intensive manhunt
in Europe since We day.
Won Ribbentrop, understood
to be wanted by the govern.
ments of at least 10 nations to
stand trial for war crimes, was
the last top-ranking Nazi known
capture. A metal can of poison
was found strapped to his body.
but he surrendered this volun.
tarily.
FRIENDS GONE
The dandified former cham.
payne salesman who became
the engineer of Hitler's AFRO.
CANT foreign policy, had been
riding in Hamburg since April
80. The man who had imposed
his diplomatic will on Europe
had not friend in all of Ger.
manys second largest city who
would assist him actively in OBJ.
tanning a place of refuge.
Won Ribbentrop volunteered
the information that he had in.
tended 10 hide until British feel.
ing about him died down, and
then attempt to save his life in q
trial. He went TO wine mer.
chant friend, he saba man
who had k no wn him for 25
years. The merchant stunned
him. Won Ribbentrop, using the
name of "RieSe' got the lodging
with an unsuspecting landlady.
POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION
The same wine merchant was
brought TO British intelligence
headquarters late yesterday and
there pointed out his erstwhile
friend. But Identification was
made even more certain.
BY keeping the arrest secret
over night, British sleuths who
had tailed Won Ribbentrop across
much OF Western Germany man.
aged TO arrest his sister. Today
IN a fearful and hysterical scene
she identified the foreign minis.
ter.
Ribbentrop first had been
traced to an area of Northern
Germany near the Danish from.
tier, where he was known tn
have passed in disguise. The
story, as released today, did not
bare what happened to him be.
tween the time he left Berlin
and the time he arrived in Ham.
burg, nor was anything disclosed
OF what he might know about
Hitler's death or survival.
PROMISE INTERVIEWS
A special plane was promised
today to fly correspondents To
the secret interrogation camp
where Ribbentrop is being held.
hut correspondents win not be
permitted to talk to him. Ribben.
trop was expected TO be taken
" Lueneberg sirfield today ON
the first leg of his journey to an
English prison.
Il wanted to stay In hiding in
Hamburg unit. British opinion
was less hostile. and then In.
tended 10 surrender for a fair
trial which would spare my life,"
ne was quotec
y Found on Ribbentrop were
three letters, addressed respec.
lively to Field Marshal Mont.
aomery, British Foreign Score.
larry Anthony Eden and TO Prime
Vincent Churchill"
POISON POTION
Ribbentrop was aroused irons
MS sleep and admitted his idsn.
'ity. Voluntarily he produced
he container OF suicide poison
which had been strapped to his
body.
He was described by his csp-
ors, 1t. J. B. Adam of Paisley
Sgt. Maj. r. c. HolIo-
way OF London and Sgt. J. 8.
Gibson OF Lancashire, % "ex-
remedy passive and not . BIZ
iuculent."