The Archive · 1928

GERMANY'S SECRET 'MILITARISTS

Members of the Rossbach Corps Sentenced Berlin, May 6.

After a trial lasting three weeks, three former members of the *Rossbach Corps," an illegal mil tary organization, were convicted in the Stettin Court to-day on: a charge of shooting their comrade, Willie Schmidt, in 1920, because the latter was suspected of informing the Inter-Allied Military Commi sion where the "Rossbach Corps hid their arms, former lieutenant named Heines was sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude, a former Sergeant named Ottow was sentenced to four years! while a workman received a sentence of three yenrs'

prisonment. Five others were acquitted.

The jury, in delivering their ver-"guilty," recommended the ners to mercy expressing the opinion that they had acted out of love for the Fatherland—Reuter,

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