Show Russians Hang Nazis for Ads Acts See Germans One Traitor Die on Gallows By Eddy Gilmore Gilmore Glimore MOSCOW Dec 20 OP The P-The The bodies of three German soldiers and a Russian who confessed he helped them co commit atrocities against the Russian people swung Monday from the public gallows in the icy wind of main square The three e were hanged at 11 a a. a m. m Sunday a day following their convictions by a military tribunal of the Fourth Ukrainian front in the first war criminal trial A crowd of saw the condemned condemned condemned con con- men strung up tip and since that time hundreds have flocked into the city from faraway sections sections sec see of province to see visible proof that the verdict was carried out The men hanged hange-d were Wilhelm Langheld a gestapo captain Hans vice commander of of a storm troop company Richard gestapo auxiliary police corporal and Mikhail a Russian who served as a chauffeur for the gestapo S Warn Tarn Hitler Langheld and died within three minutes while twitched on the gallo gallows s five minutes The German radio Ignored ignored ignored ig ig- Ig- Ig nored the trials with their testimony testimony mony mony- and admissions of ot mass execution execution exe exe- cution of R Russian civilians Monday an editorial di orial in n r 1 Pravda communist party organ warned Germany that Hitler Hitler- and henchmen await th s m at 1 All of them h rr f serg ant ht i bandit t to the general bandit will pay for their d deeds eds in full declared de de- de cl dared re the editorial which r re reviewed vl viewed wed with approval pp oval the action of the military tribunal The question of whether a war criminal is the person who gives the order or the one who actually carries it out received one answer at the Kharl ov trials All the four men convicted pleaded guilty but each said he only he-only only was was carrying out I orders Definition of of- war criminal is isone isone isone one of the problems facing the united nations commission in London London Lon Lon- don for investigating war crimes crimes The British parliament has debated debated de de- de- de bated the subject Nazi Nad S Scores ores Hitler Before they were put to death all the prisoners were allowed a alast alast alast last word dispatches to Moscow newspapers s said id i The gaunt sad-eyed sad gestapo captain Langheld a member of the nazi party said saidI I have nothing nothing- to add to my testimony I beat Russian war I prisoners and according to my orders orders orders or or- ders they were shot I I ask you to take into consideration consideration con con- I the fact that I am not alone such alone such as I am is the entire German army I am not the only one who committed brutalities I Ido Ido do not want to lessen my mv blame For the real answer for the German German Ger Ger- man atrocities in Russia you must look to the German government The German government was able to suppress those noble characteristics characteristics char char- of the German nation and to educate them into the lowest lowest low low- est eat passions This was brought Continued m OI n p- p ge Four Column One Onel Russians Execute Germans for Ift t If trActs t of Atrocity t JJ Continued From Pan Page One bout 9 t out t by propaganda and cats caU o ot of Mass ass terrorism This This s found Its place In t U the e i German German Ger Ger- man man army during the war W We Wen can n remember the words word of ot the i German poet this poet this hellish badness which in turn gives birth to bad bad- 2 less this ess-this this badness I repeat has hown Itself especially during the present war This wickedness itself In all the orders of ot the higher military authorities To these orders or or not to fulfill them was to pass the verdict 0 of d death ath upon oneself I 1 also was their victim Th The Moscow news declared the trial was the first realization reali reaU- of the statement by President President President Pres Pres- ident Roosevelt Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin on war criminals and added that it itis is lIis significant ant in that it is the Initial act in the judgment that thai will be held in the countries of liberated Europe Irrefutable documents leave no doubt that all these crimes were and are being committed by the at direct instructions of th the German government and the high command of the the German army the Moscow news editorial declared The ches also gave tave this summary of additional testimony in the later stages of the trials A Russian named German storm troops set fire tire to a wing of the army hospital where badly wounded Russian soldiers la lay Doors were nailed shut and explosives explosivE'S were planted in the wing Wounded men struggled from their cots but were shot when they appeared at atthe atthe atthe the windows Only about 50 patients patients pa pa- were saved by nurses Ther The r r. r Germans returning the next day t shot o all the soldiers they could i find t i A Professor Katov One badly 6 r. r wounded soldier was nailed to the side of a building German soldiers laughed while on one one took pictures Witness Bes who lived in park park in ii He watched the execution of a thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand people brought to prepared trenches and forced to undress despite despite despite de de- de- de spite bitter cold Those refusing to undress had their clothes torn off and were trampled to death inthe In Inthe inthe the trenches Near my garden continued the Germans dug an enormous ditch For three days they sent people to this ditch I Among them were clinging to their mothers' mothers hands t Some people were desperate They j would spit in their torturers' torturers I I fac their faces s and try to attack them with their bare fists Sometimes the Germans German threw these people into the ditch then pitched h hand nd grenades on them Other times they just shot them down as the chil children ren clung to their parents |