Evening star., 1946-10-06
German Pleas Mount
For Trial Of ; Nazis
Freed at Nuremberg
BY the Associotsd Press

BY the Assoeioisd Press
NUREMBERG, Oct. 5.-Two OF
the three acquitted top Nazi
leaders were spirited out of jail
and given final freedom today
by United States military au-
thorities amid a growing uproar
among Germans that the three
be tried in German courts for
crimes against their own people.
Hjalmar Schacht, Hitler's banker,
and Hans Fritzsche, propagandist,
were released from prison and in
stalled in downtown apartments.
Franz Won Papen, the diplomat, re-
manned in jail waiting formal word
on whether he could enter the Brit
ish zone. A British spokesman In
the zone said entry was barred to
all three.
The United States Army made 1t
clear that Schacht and Fritzsche
were free to come and 60 as they
please pending trial" by German
LIBERALIZATION courts, but reports
from all over Germany told of de-
mands that all three be brought
before German tribunals on charges
of crimes against their own people.
Crowd Demand Trial.
In Berlin 5000 persons, jamming
a variety theater in the Soviet sec
tor of the city, gave thunderous ap-
proval to resolution that not only
the three acquitted Nazis, but also
the seven who received prison SEN
tences, be delivered "to a German
court here Immediately"
"Give us Won Papen to try in
the shattered Reichschancellery,
Schacht in the battered Reichsbank
and Fritzsche under the radio
tower!" shouted one speaker.
In Bremen highest German poll
tical officials of the British and
American zones adopted unani-
mously formal resolution that the
three Nazis acquitted by the inter-
national military tribunal Tues
day be tried by German court on
a charge of Grimes against the Ger
man people"
In Munich DR.. Anton Pfeiffer,
chief de-nazification officer for
Bavaria, appealed anew to Ameri-
can Military Government officials to
turn over the three for trial by a de-
nazification court. If convicted
they could be- sentenced to hard
labor.
Convicted Nazis Appeal.
Meanwhile. all but three of the
high Nazis convicted by the tribu-
nal filed appeals for clemency with
the Allied Control Council before
the 3:45 pm. deadline. Ernst Kali
tenbrunner, Gestapo chief, SEN
fenced to hang; Albert Speer and
the Hitler youth leader, Baldur Won
Schirach, given 20 years each, dis
dained appeals.
Schacht and Fritzsche were re-
leased secretly last night. An OFF,
cial announcement was not made
until nine hours later because a
public relations officer held up the
statement on his own initiative, de-
spite authority given him to release
the news.
Military and German police guard
ed the apartments of the two with
orders to keep visitors and especial
ly newsmen out unless the former
defendants wanted to see them.
Capt. Morris Smith of the military
government of Bavaria notified
Schacht and Fritzsche at mid
afternoon that they were no longer
under house arrest and that they
could have police protection against
possible mob violence If they wanted
it.
Both Deny Being Afraid.
Both Schacht and Fritzsche said
they were not afraid to face such
trial. Schacht asserted he was in
nocent and that if he was not
neither were 100000 Germans who
voted for Hitler.
Prison authorities refused to per-
NIT Kaltenbrunner' mistress. who
has borne him twins, to see him for
the last time. She tried again in
vain today to have talk with Kali
tenbrunner on what to do with the
children.
Pope Plus XII has asked the
Allied Control Council to be merci-
full to Hans Frank, DR.. Alfred Seidl,
Franks attorney, said tonight.
Frank, who was converted to
Catholicism after his arrest, pleaded
guilty to war crimes charges. His
attorney entered an appeal with
the Control Council after he per-
sonally refused to do so.
The appeal by the Pope was SINH
lar to a last-minute plea made in
behalf of Arthur Greiser, former
Nazi gauleiter in Poznan Province
in Poland, who was hanged in Poz-
nan on July % for sending thou
sands of Poles to Nazi death camps