| NAZI SECRET COURT TRYING TRAITORS: PRISON OVERFLOWS 2,000 Storm Troopers Face Summary Inquiry Being Conducted at Munich. MORE BLAME UPON ROEHM ---------- Executed Leader Said to Have Enlisted 100,000 Men With- out Knowledge of Hitler. ---------- Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES, MUNICH, July 19.—The recent warning of Viktor Lutze, chief of staff of the Storm Troops, to would- be informers—in which he men- tioned that plotters within the ‘party were already being dealt’ with—has led to the disclosure that since the Cabinet meeting in Berlin July 4 there has existed a Nazi court-martial, It is composed of two Special Guard officers and one represen- tative of Chancellor Hitler, ‘believed to be Rudolf Hess, deputy Nazi leader. This court-martial has been sitting in Munich for the last fort- night, and it is said on authority that seems reliable that there are at least 2,000 cases before it. Prison Camp Overflows. The concentration camp at Dachau ig filled to overflowing with brown-shirted prisoners. Normaily the camp holds 2,700 men. Re- cently tents had to be added to its permanent buildings for the addi- tional prisoners taken there. It is an interesting fact, supposed to have some connection with the cleaning-up process, that ordinary policemen have replaced the Spe- cial Guards who previously guard- ed the camp. The most frequent punishment in- flicted by the court-martial appears to be expulsion from the Storm Troops, and the Ministry of the In- terior has ordered that the expul- sion order be entered upon the personal records of the men con- cerned. This will prevent them from obtaining future posts in the police, the army or any public or- ganization. The court-martial is said to have developed the information that in the last few months about 100,000 Storm Troopers have been enlisted without being properly registered as members. The purpose is sup- posed to have been to collect funds for the late Captain Ernst Roehm's purposes, since no accounting had to be made of the fees paid, and to create for him a larger private army. Published: July 20, 1934 |
| BISHOP ASKS HITLER TO EXPLAIN KILLING ------------ Berlin Prelate Gets No Reply to Query on Execution of Klauasener, Catholic Leader. ----------- Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES, BERLIN, July 19.--Bishop Bares of Berlin has appealed to Chancel- lor Hitler for an explanation of the ‘shooting of Erich Klausener, head of the Catholic Action, by the black Hitler guards on June 30. To date he has received no reply. An indication that the govern- ment had no definite charges against Dr. Klausener, however, can be seen in the fact that the Catholic Diocesan Journal last Sun- day, which carried a series of eulo- gies of the dead Catholic leader, was first confiscated and then re- leased one and a half hour later. Bishop Bares first sought infor- mation regarding Dr. Klausener's death by sending his vicar general to the Reich Minister of the In- terior, Wilhelm Frick. The Minis- ter referred him to Premier Her- mann Goering of Prussia, stating that he knew nothing about the af- fair and only the Prussian secret police would be able to say any- thing. A letter to General Goering, how- ever, brought no reply, and the Bishop decided to appeal directly to the Chancellor. The New York Times Published: July 20, 1934 |
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