Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1946 — Page 2

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in diameter, plugged at scribed the scene: and containing a glass ‘the potassium cyanide. | poison container had [Two of them were used shiernalaly} i ih Goering’s possession [to hang the condemned men indibeen concealed in ain reserve,

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Nuernherg prison gymnasium a square: security guard heard the. prisoner make “a strange noise.” ~ The cell was instantly opened and

crushed vial of potassium cyanide [for Ribbentrop's appearance. between his teeth. 4+One Chance in Million - ie , in | the scene: : i EE a a, fucSeeded Jn “As the former foreign minister

to bed early. guards a chaplain walked beside

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assigned to watch him. The night was dark and a mintster of

ne French Gen. Morel were wait- carted off to"a nameless grave.” ’ Hans Frank, who was Hitler's the gallows at 2:08 a. m;, and was correspondent,

“The black-painted wooden scaf-|stroy the Polish people was fifth to

folds stood inside the gymnasium. |die. : Mr. Gaeth reported; |,

“The 10° once great men in Hit-|. , , He climbéd the stairs followed two hours before |ler's Reich that was to have lasted by the Catholic Franciscan father |; scheduled to lead®the|for a thousand years walked up 13|In Crakow, Poland, several months “of surviving Nazi leaders to|{wooden steps to a platform eight ago Cardinal Sapieha, who had | improvised gallows erected in|feet high which was also eight feet much to do with him ‘during the told me that Frank] “Ropes were suspended from a found religion four years too late. |

fled to his guard . a million to one chance of taking Walked handcu ‘half minutes after t his life was not clear. He had gone through ranks of American security| rung. -

at Mandorf last May. | vidually, while the third was held | his face entered the room as guards Germany.”

brought in the bound Hans Frank. | Julius Streicher, Germany's No: 1]

{Jew-baiter, came next and went

cution.

Kingsbury "Smith, International|gauleiter for Poland-—the man who pronounced dead at-2:19 a. m. ? Ie HE : Jong and three-quarters News service correspondent, = de-|master-minded- the German effort! yr, wore into the execution cham- | Standing by the steps of the scaffold had any last words and Streicher make Germany . great again. to scorch the Polish earth and de- po. the same sports: coat he ap-| Sid. sharply: | peared in every day during the trial ; «land his face bore, a puzzled, be- *NOW my name well’,

- : ry |wildered expression. From the scaf- ond o Yeortad: A penitent soul with .a smile on fold he said only: “Let live eternal condemned -man shouted:

fo his death with a screaming, hys- | Streicher up the steps. As he \terical performance that included mounted to the platform the beadythe only “Heil Hitler” of the exe- eyed Jew-hater called out: ‘Now I

Mr. Smith reported:

Goering was found dead, the at eight wooden tables and waited it The tall Frank quietly remarked: [ceded Streicher's entry, Streicher ing the

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‘Ask name’. Streicher answered: The 'interpreter repeated his request and the to ‘Julius ' Streicher

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sprung with aloud bang. the rope snapped taut and the, body swung wildly a groan could | “Streicher was swung aroiind to be heard distinctly from within the q . °c “Streicher appeared in the cham- {ace the audience in front of him. dark interior of the scaffold.”

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 16, 1946

Poison, 10 On Gallows

lot Bohemia and Moravia, went to/sent a shiver down the back of this of Groon in Hurd Biblical days). Then on the: trap he shouted: ‘I| The trap for .Jodl was sprung 2 “An ‘American officer

away another American colonel scaffold “then asked the man if he wrong. God protect Gerfnany and nounced dead at 2:50 a. m.

the ‘die innocently. . The verdict was/at 2:34 a’ m. and he was pro-

Let| The last'"to - die was Seyss-

the man his snarled: ‘The Bolsheviks will hang Germany live and God protect WY ririert Wie CHAR Who Lana ‘You you one of these days.’ * ; \ \ “Just as the black hood was about head, with God. And as ‘it was ‘being adjusted | Streicher's muffled voice could be started moving heard to say: ‘Adele, my dear wife execution chamber after Saucks | ad been removed for the hood, “At that moment. the trap Was! his face flushed and his eyes | the green-clad; once brilliant atWhen |, od. ‘torney stated:

family.” a Austria over to Hitler and went Sauckel died at 2:30~a. m. 13 on to become the gauleiter of t minutes after ‘the trap was sprung. Netherlands. Soldiers Arrogant . Col. Gen. Alfred Jodl, chief of| the German general staff, entered |

Mr, Gaeth reported: “Before he died, and his glasses

‘I hope that this {execution is the last act of the = : 5 ; tragedy of the second world” war The soldiers in their green uni- |. v: ¥ with the red Tree an and that a lesson will be learned | their trousers, Keitel and Jodl, died ©, that peace and understanding

Mr, Panton reported:

Goering reported he had not seen [Slight wind ruffled Ribbentrop's un- |. Goering's hands near his mouth. [combed hair. . Suspicion centered on Goering's| ‘Three sharp knocks sounded on last visitors since his cell had been|the door. A colonel standing imrepeatedly searched. Ome report/mediately inside wheeled. sharply was that Goering had declined to!around ard the door was opened. take exercise for the last three Ordered to State Name days, possibly as part of his plot to| «Blinded in the sudden light, conceal the poison vial from dis- Riphentrop held his head high, The tlosure. handcuff was removed from his: A group of correspondents taken |wrist and his hands were tied beon an inspection of death row in ping his back. Then, preceded by Nuernberg prison 45 minutes earlier 3 colonel of the execution party had seen Goering through a cell|g,q supported on either side by peephole, apparently sound asleep.|american soldiers he walked firmly He was dressed in pajamas andy, the scaffold. At the foot of the his hands rested on the blanket, the 13 gens at the top of which hung right fist clench that.--very .momel

.and_ possibly at a noosed rope an American officer ‘clenching the gored: ‘State your name’ poison vial. “| “The request was translated intoGoering'’s 11th hour suicide German but Ribbentrop made no brought a drastic tightening of se-|anewer It was repeated and in a curity precautions in the final hour|frm voice he answered: ‘Joachim or so before the condemned men|... Ribbentrop.’ were led, one by one, to the gym-| «rhe American officer mounts the nasium in the prison courtyard stane first, Slowly and between the where three black scaffolds had two guards Ribbentrop steps up. He been erected. ; {looks neither right nor left as his "10 Died in Hour and Third | The 10 surviving prisoners. were conscious that irf*this chamber of shackled to guards. death where 10 men are to die in Outside a cold drizzle of rain was the next two hours all eyes are on falling. The bomb-shattered ¢ity him—Afirst to pay the penalty. g of Nuernberg, ones the Show place Wants “Peace for World” Nasgow and OE Sr siz “ ‘Have you any last words to sav?'. lent and dead except for the bustle asks the officer of the escorting of activity around the grim-walled |Party while the gray-haired Protes(tant chaplain, the Rev. H F

The end of the Nazis—first men | Gerecke, stands on one side in history to pay with their lives by| "Ribbentrop does not look at his orde? of a world tribunal for crimes|questioner but keeps his eyes fixed adjudged of global dimensions—was On top of the improvised blackout accomplished swiftly and with pre- that covers .the window and in a “eision. : {ringing voice which echoes through From the moment Joachim von, the building cries: ‘God protect GerRibbentrop mounted the gallows/many. My last wish is that German ~ and Executioner ‘M.—Sgt. John G. unity should remain..and that an Woods, San Antonio, Tex., adjusted understanding “between east and the noose around his neck until|west will come about and peace for Arthur Seyss-Inquart, the tenth, |the world! ee : was pronounced dead only one hour| “The black hood is then. placed and 41 minutes elapsed. “lover his head by the American’ ~The trap was sprung for Ribben- hangman. The noose is placeq trop at 1:16 a. m. (6:16 p. m. Tues- around his neck, and, with a sound day, Indianapolis time). Seyss-In- that seems something between a quart was.pronounced dead at 2:57 crash and a thunderous bump, the am 3 |trapped doors spring open. Twenty A moment later Goering's body jmintues later the doctor pronounced was brought into the execution life extinct.” ‘ . chamber where some 40 official wit- Héar Rope Creak " messes, including eight men TEPre=l ww. hour was 1:6 a.m. senting the press of the world, bad ., girange quietness descends on | Witnessed the executions. {the hall as the noise of the execu-

Saw Goering's Body _ {tion ends. and the rope with 13 Selkirk Panton, London Daily|tWists hangs down taughtly through Express correspondent, described the open trap,” Mr. Gingell conthe scene: - i tinued. 3 o:% “Pwo American soldiers entered| “Ther through the building the death chamber ‘with its three comes the most eerie of sounds— unbeautiful purple-black scaffolds | that Sreukivg rope as it swings to of rough Wool, STINE 2 Shree | “It sounds like the moaning of a kahaki American army blanket, [tormented spirit crying softly. Two bare feet, white and stiff, stuck “The hangman and his assistant

out beneath the blanket. Soldiers|!hen move to the second scaffold. put it on the floor and the wit-| There comes a“ tramp of steps outllied reporters side the door again—three knocks n S and we eight a por and the officer and guard spring |

chosen by lot to report the end of| Oh the last i of Nazidom gath-|'0 Attention. ered around it. Wants ‘Mercy for Germany’ “The blanket was whipped off.|- The knocks signalled the arrival Goering, who had tricked the al-|of 62-year-old Wilhelm Keitel, chief les to the last, lay dead, wearing of the German supreme command, disarrayed black silk pajama trou-|gullty on four counts of the inter-! sers and a pale silk pajama coat./national indictment now come to] Doctors examined him. |pay the supreme penalty. | “Then, an American colonel said:| Mr. Smith reported: | ‘Okay—take him away'.” “The Prussian field -marshal en-| Sentences Are Read tered the execution chamber with {his head held high and looked id us 2 mended pe fina! around while his hands, manacled victors of world war II of the new | behind his back, were being ‘tied doctrine that the men who launch | With leather cord. He walked with their nations upon aggressive war military bearing between two guards

to the scaffold and mounted slowly fn jo Loar Sully 8% use bar but steadily. His last words, uttered The drama began shortly before 'n # full, clear voice, were: midnight when- Col. Burton C. “I call on God Almighty to have Andrus, ‘prison ¢ommandant, ; pro- Mercy on the German people. More

‘ than, two million German soldiers ceeded to carry out the execution | - : orders: of the tn allied | Vent to their death for the Father.

i i -» sontror council {land before me. I follow my sons— rr. r .

Arthur Gaeth, Mutual broadcast- [all for Germany’. 5 Ing correspondent, described the| 1D€ trap sprung at 1:19 a. m scene: [Sad at 1:33 a. m. he was pronounced “ . ( | . eS P. Hi; he Oui, Aneris) Duelling Scars Visible “I quote the colonel: ‘T have been| Next .came Dr. Ernst: Kaltendirected by the allied control coun- brunner, of the Naz security pocil to again read to you your lice and-the lieutenant of Hitler sentence.’ Then followed the sen-! held responsible for the death of tence for each. It was then that millions of victims of gas chambers the prisoners first “knew. Each and other instruments of the Nazi bowed courteously and submitted to | extermination. policy. ‘manacling. | “Appearing sleepily, disturbed, “Julius Streicher first glared at Pale, his duelling scars very much ‘the soldier. When the colonel in evidence, Kaltenbrunner. climbed _ stepped in he turned and said the stairs and made his last pr “Thank you. Fritz Sauckel refused Nouncement:: °' ; o change his clothes. When the | I served the German people ) locked he screamed: | *nd my fatherland with willing ‘respects to American | heart. I did my duty according to

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general “From him there were no last high court at Nuern-|words. He only cleared his throat. A chamber |[He waited to pray, The chaplain witnesses headed [merely stood by. The trap was

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