The Archive · 1938

Three Beheaded for High Treason in Germany

Berlin, Jan. 22. Three executions for high treason men were beheaded with an axe, Their ages were between 30 and 40. Two were sentenced to death by the People's Court on a charge of having "prepared and committed high were announced this morning in the treason," and the third was given the advertising columns of newspapers ~a penalty for "conducting and in the usual Red posters display- espionage for a foreign intelligence ed throughiu the city.

AW three service."—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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