Evening star., 1946-10-02
Lawyers toSeek
Naziis' Execution
ByFiriing Squad
Attorneys for II War
Criminals Preparing
Appeals to Council
BY the Assoeioted Press


NUREMBERG, Germany, Oct.
2.-Lawyers for the II con-
demned German war criminals
disclosed today they planned to
appeal to the Allied Control
Council to change the death
sentences from hanging to
shooting if all other pleas for
clemency failed.
The last court of resort for Her.
mann Goering, Joachim Won Rib
bentrop and the others from the
ignominy of the hangman's rope was
formed of the four Allied generals
sitting in Berlin as occupation
authorities for the four zones of
Germany. A 18th German, Mar
tin Bormann, was sentenced in
absentia to be hanged.
AS attorneys drew their petitions,
the four power commission repre-
senting the Allied Council held an
all-day session on arrangements and
details for the executions October
16 in Nuremberg, once the festival
city of the NaZi Party. They talked
also of Transporting seven of the
war criminals to Berlin to start their
prison terms.
A redoubled force of American
soldier guards surrounded the an
cient courthouse and Jail where the
convicted men were held. and they
had orders to shoot to kill on prov
ocation.
Schacht Lacks Money.
All three men acquitted in the
history making international trial,
which established planning agrees
sive war as a supreme crime, re-
manned in Jail overnight. They had
no other place to go Immediately
Hjalmar Schacht, the truculent for
mer Finance Minister, planned to
remain in jail at least another night,
saying he had no money, ration card
nor home.
Franz Won Papen asked for visa
to the French zone in which he has
two castles near the Rhine. Hans
Fritsche may have to return to the
Russian zone, whence he came for
trial as prisoner of war.
German lawyers for Field Marshal
Wilhelm Keitel and Col. Gen. AL
fred Jodl, both relegated to the gal
lows, led the legal staff in making
appeals for clemency, and for shoot
ing rather than the rope if mercy is
denied. -
The doomed militarists were re-
ported making a special request for
a firing squad, which they consid-
cred a more honorable death for a
soldier. Q
A lawyer for Fritz Sauckel, con-
demned labor leader, attached to
his application for communication
hundreds of letters from Germans.
Other attorneys said they were OBJ
tanning similar documents to boil
ster their appeals.
Will Be Hanged Oct. 16.
Here in the inclosure of the old
courthouse of this city, which stood
as major symbol of Nazi power
in the days of Adolf Hitler, the
Fuehrer's teammates of warmaking
days-Goering, Won Ribbentrop,
Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Hans
Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Alfred
Rosenberg, Julius Streicher, Sauckel,
Jodl and Arthur Seyss-Inquart-
will be hanged unless the Allied
Control Council overrules the tri-
bunal.
There appeared to be little like
lihood of such reversal by the
four power group.
A spokesman for the Council said
in Berlin that the condemned men
would have until midnight Sat-
urday to file their appeals and that
such appeals would be acted upon
speedily"
The other seven convicts, who
drew prison terms ranging from
10 years to life, will serve their time
in a four-power Jail in Berlin, the
name of which was not disclosed
"for security reasons" For the same
reason, no announcement was made
as to when those men-Rudolf Hess,
Walther Funk, Erich Raeder GALL
life-termers), Baldur Won Schirach,
Albert Speer GO years each), Con-
stantin Won Neurath d5 years. and
(See NUREMBERG Page A-5D