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June 07, 1946 - Image 10

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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle and the Legal Chronicle, 1946-06-07

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Pa e Ten

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Le al Chronicle

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Negro College Fund
Reaches $29,667.86

Sigler Backs
Bonus Petitions

REPORT FROM
GERMANY

Friday, June 7, 19 46

Detroit's quota to raise $50,000
in the third annual United Negro
College Fund Campaign is far be-
hind schedule. This is due to the
failure of certain groups to raise
their respective quotas. Charles
H. Mahoney, local chairman, urg_
es groups and citizens of Detroit
"The bonus should be a gift of to complete their pledges and
the people, approved by their pop- make their contributions to this
ular vote, not a political foothill drive so that the drive will have
used as bait by any party or in_ a successful ending.
dividual," asserted Sigler. "I am
The groups which arc lagging
happy to have been able to draw
up this petition and organize the behind are churches, insurance,
drive for signatures as I firmly organized labor and professional
believe the bonus should and will workers.
be paid now."

Beth El To llold
Annual Meeting.

The 96th Annual Meeting
Congregation Beth 1l will bp of
held on Sunday,
p. m., in the June 9, at R:fy)
Brown Memorial
Chapel. In addition
by Dr. B. Benedict to the report,
Glazer atvi

By drawing up and having cir-
culated petitions for a soldier's
bonus, Kim Sigler, Republican
candidate for Governor, has shown
his determination to keep the bo-
nus question out of politics.

By IRVING BAYETT
Jewish Chronicle Foreign Correspondent
(Copyright 1946, All Rights Reserved)
This series of articles tells of the War Crimes
Trials in Frankfurt, Germany.

TILE MALMEDY MASSACRE

Article 21

"Der Fuehrer wants to give the German people a Xmas present
and that is why he is sending you gallant men into battle."
One week before Xmas, December 17, 1944, the Eifel Offensive,
the last big, decisive, stand of Hitler's Armies began. The object
was to cut off the Americans from their Allies and to cut them of
from their supplies. Hitler staked all on one last offensive, the Bat-
tle of the Bulge.
On December 16th, 1944, on the eve of battle, the High Command
of the 1st Pioneer Panzer Division had a meeting of the company
and battalion leaders. Speeches were made — exciting pep talks —
and encouragement.
"Der Fuehrer wants to give the German people a Xmas present
and that is why he is sending you gallant men into batttle. You will
have air support, 2,000 planes and 4,000 cannons will fire. NO PRIS-
ONERS OF WAR ARE TO BE TAKEN. PRISONERS OF WAR
WILL BE SHOT."
As we all know, for a time the Battle of the Dilqc went had
for the Americans. Many of our boys were cut off and taken pris-
oner. Near Malmedy, Belgium, there is a crossroads at the town of
Baugnez, about 5 kilos from Malmedy. At the crossroads an Ameri.
can truck convoy was cut off and surrendered. The American boys
were lined up — disarmed — hands raised -- they were searched and
all watches, jewelry, cigarettes and rings were taken from them.
They were then ordered into an open field, lined up 20 in a row,
seven or eight rows deep.
There were few survivors of the 150 boys in that truck convoy
but six of them were here in Dachau — brought here by the War
Dept.— and testified to what they lived through.
Lt. Lary, Jr., of Lexington, Ky., testified to what happened to
the truck convoy and then walked down the witness dock, gazed at
every face in the dock — the prisoners watched him intently as he
looked into each face and broke out into cold sweat. He could only
identify one man and that was the first one to fire on the Ameri-
can PW's in the field — Lary pointed his finger at one of the prison-
ers and said, "That's the man that fired at us in the field" and
pointed to Georg Fleps. The courtroom was tense and it was quite
dramatic when Lary pointed to Fleps.
Then Ford, Daub, Kingston, Ahrens and Dobyns testified to tho
same thing. Describing just what happened to the Americans. I'll
let Dobyns tell it in his own words:
"One German soldier stands up in the tank, he takes his pistol
and points it at the crowd and waves it around two or three times
and drops it to his side. Then he raises his pistol again and waves
it around again two or more times and then some American prisoner
who was lying in the field, I don't know who he was, hollered, "Stand
fast". The next time he pulls the pistol and takes deliberate aim
and fires. I see a man center ways of the front flank go down . .
I was hit through the right arm, through the right ankle, across the
hand and across the hip. My combat jacket had ten holes in it where
the bullets never touched me. . . Then the machine guns began t
fire. After everyone fell to the ground, they raked the ground over
several times. How long it was I can't say because in a position like
that, minutes seem like hours. Then after, as the tanks passed on
down the road, members of the armored outfits stood up in the tanks
and took pot shots at us. Then some Germans come into the field,
two or three or four, that I seen personally and they were shooting
the wounded that were crying for help. I saw them shoot one
wounded soldier hollering for help, crying that his legs were para-
lyzed and calling for help and the medics. I saw that. He was laying
less than five feet from me. They shot him in the back of the head.
Then after the Germans went back on the road everybody was really
quiet in the field. I thought I was the only one alive. So, I planned
to lie there and continue to play dead until it got dark and try to
make my way into Malmedy. I can't remember how long we stayed
in the field after they went up the road. Suddenly one American
PW jumps up and says, "Let's go." So, it looked to me 15 or 23
gets up and makes a break for it. After we crossed the first field,
being my right ankle was fractured my progress was slow and so
I was on the tail end of it. After we got up over In the 2nd field
the Germans who was at the intersection seen us and opened up
on us again with machine guns and small arms fire . . . Something
told me to get away from the crowd so I turns to the right and
heads for a woods. Two more survivors also travelled with me. One
was shot through the hip and the other was shot through the jaw
and was bleeding plenty. After we entered the woods we must have
went one mile or so and lost all sense of direction. We met a Bel-
gian civilian and asked him to show us the direction to Malmedy
which he did. The guy who was shot in the jaw was growing real
weak from loss of blood and he said that he would have to have
medical aid and that he would go down the road and take a chance
and maybe run into some Americans. He goes down the road and
me and the other guys stay in the woods. Fifteen or twenty minutes
later an American soldier come up the path with a pistol on his
shoulder and said, "Take it easy, boys, I'll have you back to the aid
station in just a few minutes."
There are 74 SS men — most of them members of the LSSAH,
(Leibstandarte SS Adolph Hitler) among them are General Dietrich,
General Kraemer, General Priess and Colonel Peiper -- all on trial
for the murder of 150 American boys.
There is a seven-man General Military Government Court on
the Court, with General Darhey as President.
There are six members of the Prosecution, with Lt. Col. Ellis at
Trial Judge Advocate.
There are six German civilian attorneys and seven American Mil-
itary attorneys on the Defense, with Col. Everett as Chief Defense
Counsel.
There arc 100,000.000 American citizens that are sitting as spec-
tators to the trial of the murderers of their boys, unarmed, and sur-
rendered — as a Xmas present for Hitler.

The petitions circulated by the
Michigan Veterans Bonus Com-
mittee, headed by Hon. Harry S.
Toy, former Supreme Court Jus-
tice, provide for a payment of 815
for each month of service by
Michigan men and women in the
armed forces from December 7,
1941 to January 1, 1946. It is t!.e
committee's aim to obtain over
200.000 signatures by July 5 and
have the bonus issue on the No-
vember ballot.

Leonard T. Lewis, president of thy
Congregation, the members
wil l
act on
of irnpor
matters. a number

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DRAMATIC ART RECITAL

Mrs. Eve Meister presented her
pupils in their annual dramatic
art recital on Wednesday, May
Petitions are being circulated 29, in the Detroit Institute of
throughout the state by the Vet- Arts. The recital was very well
erans Bonus Committee to all vet- received.
erans' organizations, including the
American Legion, V.F.W., and the
American Veterans Committee.

Chronicle Want Ads Pay!

MASS MEETING

United Rumanian Jews of Detroit
Wednesday June 12th

AT 8:00 P. M.

at JEWISH FRATERNAL CLUB

Tremon Mc Dermott

for

8679 12th STREET

Guest Speakers—PHILLIP SLOMOVITZ and WILLIAM
HORDES

SHERIFF

No Collections, Solicitations of Funds or Appeals

EVERYONE INVITED

INSURED

COLD

SAUL BERKOWER

STORAGE

Of Berkower's Fur Shoppe, Former Address,
11574 Dexter Boulevard

(DEMOCRAT)

1141:11101

1 1 3.

1,0111 ,

REPAIRING

RESTYLING

CLEANING

WISHES
TO
ANNOUNCE.

HE IS NOW ASSOCIATED WITH HIS BROTHER, LOUIS

BERKOWER, UNDER THE SAME FIRM NAME

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12221 Dexter Blvd.

At Richton

HOgarth 3380 - HOgarth 1 460

.

We hope the merging of our many years experience in the fur business will give

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HONEST DEALINGS and the FINEST COURTEOUS TREATMENT.

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