Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 May 1945 — Page 16

e Inside Story On Goering—Rescue By

SAYS WIFE

“BRIBED S.S. GUARD

‘Brobably Convinced Them They Would

Be Spared If- No. 2 Nazi

Was Left Unharmed.

Curt Riess, on assignment in Europe for NEA: Service and The Indianapolis Times, is widely known for his books, magazine articles and newspaper stories on events in the Third Reich. This dispatch

Lu twaffe Pals Denied

BATTERIES PROMISED

WASHINGTON, May 14 (U. P.). —Dry cell batteries will be an the market in large quantifies for all civilian purposes in the next 30 to 60 days, the war production board has announced. These batteries are used exten-

sively in hearing ‘aids, flashlights, portable radios and other items. The increase in production . for civilian use has been made possible, accordng to WPB, by cutbacks if military requirements.

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32 TECH STUDENTS | "HAVE STRAIGHT A'S

‘Thirty-two students at Technical

erages during the second period of this semester, ‘They were: Beryl Birk, Barbara Hacker, Helen

Hdntzis, JoAnn Hynes, Colleen McConnell, Wands Milner, Dorothy Pritchard, Virginia Rodman, Caro-

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G.I. s Have Right to Change |

Beneficiaries of Insurance!

WASHINGTON, May 4 — Here are some questions from G. I's on

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Phyllis Ludlow, Patricia Mason, Wil- is the procedure?’

officers’ training school. I:spent “six | months in a naval hospital and then | resigned under honorable conditions, | Can I continue my insurance and can I get all the benefits of the GI Bill of Rights? A~You sh cen inue your ine surance. Rights Jeegarding yous SLE doesn’t give all the conditions of

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a message to considers the relinble.

was radioed from Berchtesgaden.

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BERCHTESGADEN, May 14.—Now that Goering has| Summer elementary school classes

been made prisoner by allied troops the inside story of what|in orchestra, instrumental instryc~ tion, tonette and piano are being

A.—Yes, you can. change the beme- |®ision in your case, Write to the ficiary without notifying or geiting|navy department for that answer, permission from the original one,| They have your complete record and Just state what you want to do and An make a decision on it, mail it to Veterans Administration. :

Q.—My government insurance is OBSERVANCE OF 31ST!

By CURT RIESS OBER | was a ste

happened to the man who once was second only to Hitler can

be revealed.

This correspondent was given the stor y by a person who lived through the developments described below at a point very near to Goering. The condition of revealing this story

was that it should not be told which otherwise might have } About five weeks ago, on

rived in Berchtesgaden. He brought with him his wife, his nd a few of his closest friends.

daughter Edda, a in six a arrived in a

The servants said that in spite of Goering’s standing the |p party had the greatest difficulties in getting through Ger-| * many, where complete confusion already reigned. Goering immediately went to his estate at Obersalzberg, near Hitler's place, and retired.

only the day before Goering’s

several times during the preceding weeks.

repeatedly urged the fuehrer

and Hitler had made his usual scenes.

S. 8. Arrest Household Both had parted without reconciliation. This supposed- | ly had taken place weeks before, during the time when | the allies smashed all resistance in the west. It is entirely | possible that Goering hoped to make one last plea in Berch-| fesgaden. But the purpose of the trip was to remove him. "the scene of possible battles and also of decisions, | thus clearly indicating that he was through with the war. |

self from

The night of April 2 and

remained alone. However, he finally summoned his friends |

_on the evening of April 3 for

ing estate in the village of Berchtesgaden, about two miles | away from his mountain estate, Lt. Gen. Bruno Loerzer of | -the Luftwaffe, Gen. Boden-|

shatz, his old adjutant and "others, among them Marshal! Brauchitsch, were summoned. Altogether there were about | _wadozen men at the meeting.

"RR 11 o'clock at .night, Loerzer, | Brauchitsch and Bodenschatz lett, |

but the meeting continued. At one in the morning Reichsleiter Martin Bormanti, who had flown to Berch- | tesgaden from Berlin, entered. the | house and declared everyone present under arrest. He declared also | that the house was surrounded by the 8. 8.

In Hands of Himmler

There was a fantastic scene. Goering roared and threatened, but to no avail. There were no weapons in ‘the house, since all. were on the Berchtesgaden estate. But aside from the aforementioned men, who only the next day learned .about! the development, nobody was at Berchtesgaden. Goering was in the hands of his long time opponent, Himmler.

Bormann soon again, but before he

guards that all those arrested must be kept in separate rooms and not be allowed to converse. This was done. Bormann said further commands as fo what to do with the

prisoners would be issued from Ber- |

lin. However; no news ever came again | from Berlin. During the following!

days the head of the S. 8. guards kept |

strictest watch over the prisoners. Goering, after wild scenes, com pletely collapsed. He refused all food, brooded all the time, and silently paced the floor. In the meantime, Bodenschatz and Loerzer, both still on the Berchtes-

gaden estate, attempted to arrange | for the liberation of Goering. They |“

succeeded in securing additional weapons from Hitler's special train, which stood near the railway station at Berchtesgaden, and brought them into their own cottages. But there | were no men to use them. Furthermore, both men were afraid that | eventually they would be arrested, too, and decided to ledve the | + premises.” Locked in Cellar

In the meantime, General Kast- | ner, adjutant to Hitler and Goering’s friend, appeared at the| Berchtesgaden estate upon learning what had happened, made an at-

tempt to persuade guards to let|

Goering free. This attempt failed Thereupon he returned to the Berchtesgaden estate, other developments. Now the allies entered the scene. Bombers roared over Berchtesgaden,

destroying Hitler's ‘house and se- |

, verely damaging Goering's house, |

Thereupon the head of the 8. 8.| guards decided to put his prisoners into single rooms in the cellar, Goering ventured a feeble ‘protest, but in vain, Finally, after two days,

_. the guards permitted each prisoner

"a one-hour walk in the garden

under guard and alone, On Sunday, April 29, a few hours before the allies entered Munich,

head guards made a decision to re-’

move Goering and their prisoners. Mrs. Goering. was offered her freedom, but refused and insisted on coming along with her husband.

left for Berlin] went he arranged with the head of the S. S.|

awaiting, took walks in the garden and told

_| grave.

Sylvia Pearl Jones is worthy matron | | and William P

before the arrest of Goering, been impossible.

year, school superintendent, today.

planned for’ the second consecutive | assistant |

H. L. Harshman, announced

Supervision of the classes will be

directed by Ralph W. Wright, director of music for the public schools.

Extension of the program

Monday, April 2, Goering ar-|to include classes in either glee

The party, state of near exhaustion.

Hitler, however; -had left] They had quarrelled Goering had to give up this senseless war |

arrival,

most of-the next day Goering |

a conference. From the Goer-|

| Berchtesgaden—told friends there| {that he was leaving for Mauters- | dorf in the Tyrol, about 80 miles] {away. Getsch could reach this place only by rather dangerous mountain | roads because the main roads were! already occupied by “American airborne troops. In the meantime Goering had been sentenced to death by whomlever then was responsible as {the so-called German government. Himmler supposedly had wished to! +go through with an execution weeks jearlier, but was stopped by Hitler, who was still fond of Goering. Whatever the truth, the heads of the S. S. guards never knew what to do. At Maultersdorf he was com- | pletely cut off from the rest of the | world. He decided that he couldn't [take the responsibility of acting one {way or the other. The guard had a conference with Goering and | suggested that he might wish to commit suicide. Goering refused. Goering Surrendered { In the meantime, Mrs. Goering, who carried along some of her extremely valuable jewelry, had bribed guards to assure the safety of her husband. Stil] the fate of Goering was touch and go until our troops arrived at Maultersdorf on the morning of May 9, and took the feastle, where the Goerings were imprisoned, by surprise. We could come so-.early because we had been tipped off to the whiereabouts of Goering by two nephews who had kept hidden | somewhere near the Berchtesgaden | estate. When our toon. took 'Berchtesgaden the Goerings surrendered at {once.. They declared that they had {been offered an opportunity to go {into the mountains and continue to fight there, but had refused such unsoldierly” behavior, Goering later said that he was {liberated by Luftwaffe troops from the 8S 8. There is no reason to | believe this since all arrangements by Loerzer and Bodenschatz had | failed. It is more likely that bribing by Mrs, Goering, and the per- | suasion that 8. 8. troops would get {away with their lives if they did not { hurt Goering, did the job. The | place where we found Goering, near | Radstadt, was not the place where he had been a prisoner, guarded {by the 8. § | Kastner Killed Self | Gen. Kastner had stayed on the Berchtesgaden estate while Field Marshal Brauchitsch had made off hours before our arrival. Kastner

{ Goering’s caretaker that he would shoot himself when the allies entered that area. . She didn't believe him, but heard {a shot Just a few minutes before our first cars entered the town. | Kastner had shot himself just out | side the bungalow where he lived. In the ensuing confusion of occupation, nobody cared about the dead general. On Tuesday, May 8, a few Berchtesgaden peasants buried the! man who once belonged among the most important leaders of the Third Reich. This correspondent was present when they took him to a little grave on the Goering estate. Then they made alittle cross of wooden Sticks and put his helmet on it. Our tanks and gars roared by, nobody | knowing or caring about the little, There is no name to indi-| . cate who is buried there,

0. E. 8. TO MEET

will meet ‘at 8 p. m. tomorrow. Initlatory work will be done. Mrs.|

P. Krueger, wary po. |

Brookside chapter, 481, O.-E. 8.

club or choir is planned.

Classes will meet once each week

for approximately one and one-haif hours.

Tech. 5th Gr. Betty Hennegan, WAC from Cincinnati, O., assists Lt. Don Gramza, dental officer, at Billings hospital dental clinic. Cpl. Robert Wilson of Peru is the patient.

The woman's army corps of 94,000 soldiers is célebrating its third. birthday today in the United States and at distant outposts in other parts of the world. Beginning with 770 enlisted women and officers who took the

first basic training course at Des Moines, Iowa, the WAC now has 15,500 members serving overseas. Sixty-five of the WACs have won’ decorations for distinguished service in various fields, including 28 bronze star medals.

350 TO PARTICIPATE

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ANNIVERSARY IS SET,

Maj. Harold C. Megrew auxiliary § to the United Spanish War Veterans |

will observe its 31st: anniversary at 8 p. m. today in Ft. Friendly,

Mrs. William H. Collins will be in chargé of the program and a class | of 100 candidates will be initiated, §

Music will’ be provided by Mrs. Edith | Kernan, Mrs, Mattie E. Resor,

auxiliary president, will be in charge § ;

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