Friday, Jun e 14,

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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Harris, Ex-GI Opens Bernhardt States
Campaign for Senator Council Platform

REPORT FROM
GERMANY

By IRVING IlAYETT
Jewish Chronicle Foreign Correspondent
(Copyright 1916, All Rights Reserved)
This series of articles tells of the War Crimes
Trials In Frankfurt, Germany.

The Malmedy Massacre

The Malmedy case is in its sec- Unterscharfehrer Haas shot, 3.
ond week. So far, the Prosecution Road ditch out of which tl - w
has been putting in its case, based Americans jumped, 4. House
mostly on statements by the ac- towards which they ran, 5. Houses
cused, and the testimony of the in Honsfeld."
six American boys who survived
"Thereupon, I wanted into a
the massacre of Prisoners of War. hotkse which was across the street
The Prosecution is presenting its together with Unterscharfuehrer
case and trying it on the record. Haas who suggested walking
The statement these SS men through the house. In the kitchen
gave are simply amazing as to de- of this house we saw a woman
tail, completeness and in most about 40 years old who was ap-
cases, frankness. These men were parently left behind in this house.
well trained and it is simply un- When we entered the kitchen we
believable how much of the de- saw her standing in the middle of
tails, the roads, the terrain, the the room and Unterschafuehrer
times, the men who were there, Haas asked her whether there
the small details they remember. were American soldiers in the
They accompany their statements house. The woman motioned with
with sketches that are master- her head 'No'. Thereupon Haas
said to me, 'Rieder, bump this
pieces of detail.
Most of the accuses are young woman off."
"I was armed with a rifle which
boys and young men—Hitler
Youth trained—volunteers for the I then aimed at this woman.
SS and Panzer divisions—the Thereby I stood approximately
Elite troops of Hitler—well, too two meters away from this wo-
well, indoctrinated with the phil- man, my face opposite her face.
osophy of Nazism—the philosophy When the. woman saw that I
of Hitler,/ the philosophy of hatred, aimed at her she screamed with
complete obedience to orders, mur- freight, remained standing. At the
der, theft, brutality and every- same moment I already shot aim-
thing that goes with being gang- ing exactly at the center of the
forehead and the end of my bar.
sters in war.
ref only about one meter away
Contrast to Americans
from the woman and I hit' ex-
I could not help but contra-it actly the same spot I aimed at.
our American boys, as they testi- I fired one shot after which the
fied with the SS boys in the pri- woman immediately collapsed
soners dock. Outwardly, they dead. I then bent down to her to
looked alike. Both are young and see whether she was dead because
healthy. Both are well trained— if she would not have been dead
but there the similarity ends. The I would have fired a second shot
Nazis are machines—automatons- at her. This was not necessary be-
an order was an order—without cause I established at this ex-
someone to give the orders, with- amination that the bullet which
out a leader they had no unity-- penetrated the forehead came out
they were lost. They were not in- the back of the head and that
dividuals working together as a there was a big hole in the back
team—as were our boys—but of the head from which the brains
flowed out. In my opinion this
merely parts of a machine.
The German mind, as I have woman gave no cause for which
said before, is a mind trained in she should be shot."
This excerpt is typical of many
orderliness. Everything in its
place, first things first and every- of the others. They l brag about
thing in a plan or pattern. Papers their accuracy in shooting inno-
and documents are very import. cent women, they admit follow-
ing illegal orders, they admit that
ant to the Germans.
As the statements are read, the there was no cause for the shoot.
completeness, the detail is amaz- ing, they admit--they admit --they
ing. They name times, to the admit.
exact minute, places, even to the
A little 'while ago, up in Bremen.
numbers on the houses and of while sitting at a table in th
course, they unashamedly impli- Officers Red Cross Club I heard a
cate their comrades. They tell GI announcer say,
how• many they shot, how many
"That it is better to have Ger-
shots were fired—the guns they many in ruins than have Nazism
used and then coldbloodedly ad- spread to other parts of the world,
mit to shooting unarmed, sur- no German has said."
rendered Prisoners of War and
unarmed, innocent civilians, in-
cluding women:
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From the statement of Max
Rieder, an accused:
$2.50
"My impression was that he
climbed out (an American PW)
Club Exchange Gift Shop
of the ditch to give himself up.
10220 DEXTER
When Untershcarfuehrcr Haas of
the penal group of the 9th Pan-
zer Pioneer Co., 1st Panzer Regi-
ment LSSAH saw this he aimed a.
ZOBER
his machine pistol at the prisoner
The
and fired a burst at the prisoner,
KOSHER ALL-VEGETABLE
in my estimation about 10 shots."
OIL SOAP POWDER
"I have made a sketch of this
Sold in 25-lb. boices
place which I have marked "A"
CALL TO. 5-3534 for Delivery
and attach it to this statement.
On it is meant: 1. Our SPW, 2.
STONE SOAP CO.
American Jeep in front of which

World War II veteran, Jerome
Harris, Democratic candidate for
State Senator of the Fifth Dis-
trict, plans a two-fisted fight for
better housing and a bonus for
vets.
Harris, himself an enlisted man
who served in England, France
and Germany with the 279th Sta-
tion Hospital, believes the best
bonus system should be in a grad-
uated form dependent on length
of service in the states and over-
seas.
Since receiving his discharge in
February, he has joined such or-
ganizations as the American Le-
gion, Rosenwald Post, American
Veterans Committtee and Young
Israel.

VOTE TUES., JUNE 18

In a statement issued to De-
troit voters today, George M.
Bernhardt candidate for City
Council in the primary election on
June 18, laid down five planks in
his platform.
These Include housing facilities
being made available to lower in-
come groups, checking unneces-
sary expansion of city adminis.
tration, functions and buildings,
changes in the city charter to cut
down administration expense and
attract qualified men for office,
putting the affairs of the City de-
partments directly in the hands of
the Councilmen, making each one
responsible for one department,
instituting an educational program
to make attractive to citizens the

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