The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-15
British In FIensburg
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 The British military commenta- tor, in admitting that Doenitz's status still was not clear, pointed out that it was necessary in mass surrenders Ito deal with someone who has authority over surrender ing troops"
 At the same time, however, he said that it would not necessarily have to be Doenitz in the present case.
 The commentator could give no satisfactory explanation of the Ger man announcement that German Marshal Ernst Busch had been placed in command of German forces and civilians in northwest Germany last week with Allied sanction.
 But he offered this as partial explanation"
 Something like 5000, 900 Germans are milling around and the best method of controlling them is to make use of existing authority until their future has been settled"
 The final explanation, he said, would have to come from supreme headquarters.
 The Allied War Crimes commis- sion, currently studying means of trying war criminals, such as Him. mler and Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering, first received word of Kal- tenbrunners capture yesterday.
 Although the majority of mem- bers of the crimes commission were believed to be in favor of the Amer ican idea of a military tribunal, the Russian ideas on the subject still were obscure.
 Killed Million
 Kaltenbrunner, alleged chief of the gas program which was said to have claimed at least 4,OOO, 900 lives, was considered one of the top war criminals.
 He was a shadowy figure, long known to the War Crimes commits sion experts only as a fiat man with singularly unpleasant face" He was under multiple indictment for mass murder.
 Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Kaltenbrunner were said to have decided on gas as a cheap and ef- fective method of mass execution in three-man conference in Ber- lin in 1942.
 At least two gas extermination camps were set up, one in Poland and the other in Germany. Accord ing to an eyewitness report in the hands of the commission, Jewish men, women, and children were killed in lots of 1000 at time in the Polish camp.
 Jenda Weiss, Czech Jewish lad of 15, said in a sworn statement that guards" drove people into the gas chamber with sticks and when the place was full they threw chil- dren in through the windows"
 Gas then was let into the cham Der through three shafts. "The lungs gradually were destroyed and their shrieks could be heard for about three minutes" the boys statement said. He also swore that those still alive after the chamber was opened were killed by other means and all the bodies were cre.aated.
 Tn News Chronicle dispatch said that Kaltenbrunner had tried to alter his looks by shaving his mus tache but his thugs scared face identified him.
 Goeaing, it was believed here, would be held in the most strict military detention in the future as the result of the storm of pub lie protest and Gen. Dwight Eisen- hower's statement following his early treatment.
 At least four other Nazis of min ister's rank now in Allied hands Or available for arrest have been indicted and, presumably, held for trial. They were Count Lutz Schwer- in von Krosigk, foreign minister" of the Doentiz government, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Hans Frank, and Karl Hermann Frank. The latter three, respectively Nazi representa- tives in Holland, Poland, and Czechoslovakia, also were German ministers without portfolio.
 Vidkun Quisiling, Naz overlord for Norway, may be the first promi- nent criminal to go on trial. He will be tried for treason by the Nor wegian high court.
 Pierre Laval also faces a treason trial upon his return to France, when arrangements for returning him from Spain are completed. If arrangements work monthly, Laval will face a French court very shortly.
 Himmler Manhunt On
 The No. criminal on the list, Heinrich Himmler, still was the ob- ject of a wide manhunt today, cen- tered in the Flensburg area where the regime of Admiral Karl Doenitz has been holding forth. The status of Doenitz himself still was under investigation by the war crimes commission.
 Many other Nazi war criminals still were among the missing and their whereabouts a mystery. They included former Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop Labor Front Leader Robert Ley, and Dr. Arthur Rosenberg, author of the infamous a <f rrs sr4c 4cI 114x