European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 28, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                February 1948 the stars and stripes  rvs Numis ins Alkirk Mio a26 makes belly landing9 at All lower tiie Landing gear this ai6 bomber and Ita Kenneth Kirch derided to try a belly Landing at first enfold air where be to the plane Circle came Down to the runway a in even after it dlr crofter held it on an keel while it skidded Down the runway left and when it was All Over and the plane Hud come to a Kirchoffer and his Crew chief walked unhurt from the plane Aliu Ough major damage was done to the officials at Fursten Fel Brock declared on basis of nearly in they believed it could be mgr Iutress r uss on right offre speech by Job Fleming staff correspondent 17 High a Hilary government official Atad last night the continue to press for soviet adherence to Allied agreement guaranteeing germans Freedom of Thomas Deputy director Kcf mrs information control said in a speech Over in american sector oat the considered the free 6w of printed matter an essential condition for German Unity and Kennan he called the confiscation of Tamer Secretary of state James f Byrnes speaking frankly and Tiro other american sponsored pamphlets in the soviet sector of Berlin part of the worldwide struggle against Freedom of sex and human we intend to press this Headen we came to Ger Flung to destroy a police state and we intend to see the Job thoroughly we did not come Here to participate n the creation of a new Gestapo or a new a kid act skuas show fear of troth by seizing the red Headen he Ossam have demonstrated that fee Iron curtain is still there they have also shown a surprising of truth and for me Sike of German Unity bad hoped that All four occupy ing Powers meant what they said when they agreed to free Exchange i printed matter across All zonal we would still like to Tefet convinced of this because there be no talk of German Unity German Freedom without such but the trouble seems to be that three of the occupying Powers be in Freedom of expression Home and the fourth one does apparently this one Power cannot afford to give the German people rights which it still denies own death 000 priests Laid to nazis 27 one thousand Catholic priests were either killed outright or died of starvation or disease in the Dachau concentration Camp during the according to testimony of father of Wurtem former Dachau who was a prosecution witness yester Day in the Nurnberg War crimes trial of 21 former nazi government officials and leaders in Industrial and banking circles in the defendants in the so called ministries Case Are charged responsibility for criminal persecution of germans and other euro peans on religious and Polit ical with aiding Hitler in aggressive warfare and other War crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed prior to and during the father Basing his state ment on records he kept while at testified that priests from Germany and Germano Ccu pied countries were interned there Between 1941 and 1945 when he was he said he was arrested by the Gestapo on july 1941 because he had permitted four polish workers to attend Catholic mass on easter monday in it was for the priest for polish workers in Germany to attend religious services with and the mayor of Muldorf reported the incident to the the priest said thousands of Dachau both clergymen and were starved tortured for slight and the and sick were gassed to a prominent German Catholic Hans professor at Berlin testified for the prosecution in the same trial yester under direct examination by of Peters said Church property was Monas teries and Catholic schools were closed and hundreds of Catholic periodicals were banned in Ger Taylor sees attacks stirring world interest in War trials by Julia staff correspondent 27 War crimes on a Telford War crimes told the stars and stripes last night that attacks on the conduct of the Nurnberg trials ought to by Arous ing world he said he did not want to carry on his argument with judge Charles who presided in the War crimes trial of eight Ger Man generals and afterwards criticized prosecutors at be cause he feared the immediate Ger Man reaction to a dispute Between two quotes Paris talk to show that his defense of the International military tribunal was stated Long before Wennerstrum made his attack in an interview f Yak to the Chicago Taylor Juv habited copies of speeches he made in Paris and Switzerland six months admitting that he at first had serious doubts about the grand scale of the Taylor told French judges and lawyers that it later became apparent that an essential objective of military Vic tory by nazis was to gain the Opportunity thereafter to commit grand scale those who have never seen a German City he will be callous about flattening French or american these trials therefore a signal Opportunity to Lay before the German people the True causes of their present the events of the nazi he must be established by Clear and Public proof so that no one can doubt they were the Only Way to overcome tha approach that the tribunal is a tribunal of he is to establish an International penal jurisdiction on a permanent yanks must pay 148 2t be wave which reached its Peak the 18 months following Ger nys capitulation has subsided at what but its Atill More than last year 148 murders were Coro Ted in average of than 12 a suicides while 391 additional Ide in crimes were cob including Blac Market cases in which persons were a in persons disappeared the russian sector led All others with crimes committed with in its the american sector was next with a few More than ten Berlin policemen were killed end 97 seriously injured in the performance of during the first 18 months after the wars 700 murders were More than 38 o 27 military personnel in the dec can to longer mail duty free parcels to the United Neucom announced the British War office has in formed Neucom that the duty free Concession granted by the British government to forces serving in the dec has Neucom All packages mailed by Neucom personnel to the us will now be subject to a full customs duty and or Purchase according to the British North Baden police arrest 299 for Black marketing 27 German North Baden Border police arrested 299 persons on Black Market charges and checked Border crosses during the month of police directors sealed contraband amounting to Marks was this included liners of 32500 120 liners of other food and one motor vehicle with trailer foreign office allowed iia Ciers have to Tuc new International immunization Check Point at Rhine main air base to have their shot records unless the record is no to Date the travellers get the Needle before leaving for the entering the zone or beading for cholera and yellow fever infested Herbert Mittendorf of Louis is shown Here Clearing a fio 500 Munich Dps to study agriculture in Strasbourg Febi 27 Hundred jewish displaced persons have left Munich for where they will study Agri culture while awaiting Josef in charge of the Munich military Decker said most of them Hope to go to Palestine Tomor Row 200 Dps of different nationalities leave Munich for Bremen and eventual emigration to the More Homes bad 27 More than 100 installations for do housing were closed and turned Back to the German Economy in me last six months of 1st g5 officials announced to kit Flers 27 the German foreign office went along with the nazis in their program of Lynching Allied fliers despite the fact they knew it was legally of documents introduced in the trial ol21 former Gennan diplomats have american prosecutor h Wil Liams new York formerly an american air Force several of whose flier friends were lynched by the nazism introduced the document in the Case against Karl former official in the foreign office in spite of the obvious object founded on International Law and foreign the foreign office is basically in agreement with the proposed Ritter wrote Field marshal Wilhelm in the examination of the individual a distinction must made Between the cases of Lynching and the cases of special treatment by the Security when an enemy airman has been captured by the wehrmacht or by the police and has been delivered to the air Force reception Camp at he thereby has acquired the status of a prisoner of Ritter therefore it is suggested that an emergency solution1 be introduced to prevent suspect fliers from at Taining a Legal pm immediately upon seizure they Are to be told that they Are regarded not As but As criminals and that they will be not to the authorities competent for but the authorities competent for the prosecution of Crim Inal new gym named for army officer 27 the new Headquarters command gymnasium in the Bells area has been named in Honor of Alfred Well known track who died in action in january 1945 during the Battle to eliminate the Colmar it revealed night at dedication Robinson commanding dedicated new athletic eight boxing bouts be tween teams representing the flak Kaseane Robert Henry Kar Serne and Headquarters Lowed the Pacific command shifts 21 a Oscar Badger look com Mand of the  Tant Pacific his command includes areas West of the Mariana