U.S. COURT FINDS MILCH IS GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01009A000700970074-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 1, 2013
• Sequence Number: 74
• Publication Date: April 17, 1947
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/11/04: CIA-RDP80M01009A000700970074-6
NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE ? April 171 1947
U.S.CourtFinds
Mileh Is Guilty
Of War Crimes
Nazi Field Marshal Faces
Gallows; Recruited and
Mistreated Slave Labor
NuEttelama, April 18 (IP).?A
free-man American court today
convicted Field Marshal Erhard
Mulch of war crimes, Including the
recruiting and mistreating of slave
laborers. Sentence will be Im-
posed tomorrow. The court's ver-
dict could carry the penalty of
death on the gallows.
Much, one of the builders of the
Luftwaffe, was acquitted of
charges of abetting fatal medical
experiments on humans placed In
low-pressure chambers and In
freezing water.
An opinion by Judges Robert M
Toms, of Detroit. and F. Donald
Phillips, of North Carolina,
'brushed aside contentions by
'mulch that he had to obey the or-
ders of AdOlf Hitler. If the Ger-
mans had won the war, the opin-
ion said, persons like Milch would
have been hallechas geniuses, and
"this dependant would now be
elbowing his way into the front
row claiming to have successfully
and victoriously carried out Hit-
ler's orders and policies."
Milch. As a dominant figure of
the Central Planning Board, knewl
about the entire slave program
and tried to stimulate it. the
Judges added.
Expected "Cowboy" Occupation
NUERNBERG, April 18 (W).?A
witness at the de-NazIfication trial
of former Nazi financier Hjalmar
Horace Greeley Schacht testified
today that some Germans expected
the. United States to occupy the
country "with cowboys."
Rudolf Bich's, former Prussian
police official, said tha Banskaa
Glsevlus, who fled thiNazi regime"
sdinierited with American Intent-1
Bence agents in Switzerland, had
told hint he knew about occupation
plans and that "literally, the re-
gime of Americans would be cow-
boys."
The scheduled appearance of
Franz von Papen in court as a wit-
ness has been postponed. The for-
mer diplomat now serving eight
years in a German prison for being
a major Nazi, was stricken with
aslight heart attack last night. Be
is sixty-eight.
Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/11/04: CIA-RDP80M01009A000700970074-6