Evening star., 1946-10-01
q Days for Appeal;
Russia Dissents on
Some Judgments
BY the Associated Press

NUREMBERG, Oct. 1.-The
international War Crimes Tri-
.bunal today decreed death on
the gallows for IL of Adolf Hit
ler's gang, sentenced z to prison,
and-with Russia dissenting
acquitted three defendants.
Sentenced to. death were Reichs-
marshal Hermann Goering, former
Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim Won
Ribbentrop, Field Marshal Wilhelm
Keitel, chief of Hitler's high COM
mand; Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Ges-
tapo chief; Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi
, party philosopher; Hans Frank,
governor-general of occupied Po-
land: Wilhelm Prick, former Nazi
Minister Of Interior; Julius Stretch
er, notorious Jew batter; Fruitz
Sarckel, Nazi slave labor chief;
Col. Gen. Alfred Jodl, chief of the
German general staff: Arthur
Seyss-Inquart, NaI occupation in
the Netherlands, and Martin Bor-
mann, Hitler's last deputy Fuehrer,
tried in absentia.
Sentenced to life Imprisonment
were Rudolf Hess, Hitler's former
deputy Fuehrer: Walther Funk, for
mer Reichsbank head, and Grand
Admiral Erich Raeder, former Ger
man naval chief.
Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, who
surrendered Germany and was
Fuehrer in the last few days Of the
war, received a 10-year sentence.
Baldur Won Schirach, Hitler youth
leader, and Albert Speer, German
Munitions Minister, both were SEN
fenced to 20 years in prison.
, ConStantin Won Neurath, German
Foreign Minister and later pro
tector Of Bohemia and Moravia,"
was given IS years.
Acquitted were Franz Won Papen,
former Nazi Ambassador to Austria:
Hjalmar Schacht, Nazi financial
wizard, and Hans Fritsche, Nazi
Deputy Propaganda Minister.
Russia Makes Protest.
The court, after pronouncing the
sentences, announced that Russia
had protested against the tribunals
acquittal of Won Papen, Schacht
and Fritsche.
The Soviet judge, Maj. Gen. I. T.
Nikitchenko, also protested that
Hess should have been hanged in
stead Of receiving life imprisonment
and objected to yesterdays acquittal
of the general staff and high COM
mand.
Judges of Britain, the United
States and France joined in the
majority opinion, which now will
be carried out by the Allied Con-
troll Council, representing all four
Allies.
Russia still may carry to the Con-
troll Council her objections to the
acquittals and the prison sentence
for Hess. This Council is made upI
of the ranking representatives in
Germany of the four occupying pow
ers and has the final say over all
the defendants.
Even as the Hitler gangsters were
stunning back to their Nuremberg
courthouse cells, 1t. Gen. Lucius D.
Clay, representing the Control
Council. was in the courthouse max
ing execution arrangements.
Four Days for Appeal.
The defendants have four days in
which to appeal to the Allied Con-
troll Council, their court Of last re-
sort. This council. representing the
United States, Britain, Russia and
France In the government of Ger
many, has authority over the exc
cutions, which are expected October
16 unless an appeal for clemency is
granted, and there seemed little
chance of that. All defense attor-
neys had announced they would ap-
peal in the event of death sentences
against their clients.
Legal officials of the American
Military Government said that If
any of the three Nazi leaders ac-
Quilted were returned to the Ameri-
can zone of occupation they prob
ably would be tried by Germans
under the zones denazifcation law.
The ofacials said because Schacht
and Won Papen owned property in
more than one zone 1t was conjec-
tural to which they might be re-
turned. Legal experts in Berlin ex-
pressed belief the Russians might
get custody OF Fritsche, whom they
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