The Archive · 1938

)THREE BEHEADED FOR HIGH TREASON IN GERMANY

Rerlin, Jan. 22, 'Three executions for high treason were announced this morning in the advertising columns of newspapers and in the usual Red posters dispiayed throughing the city. All three' 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' treason," and the third was given the supreme "penalty for" "conducting espionage for a foreign intelligence service."—Reute

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

Your account