The death sentence was demanded this week-end ##r General Hans Albin Rauter, former German head of the Gestapo in Holland, during ?s trial here for the murder of thousands of Dutch Jews and non-Jewish partisan ?ghters during the Nazi occupation of the country. The president of the court declared that “partial Judgment” would be pronounced April 15.
Reuter’s defense consisted of refusing to recognize the jurisdiction of the ?urt while at the same time declaring that he placed himself at the Netherlands Government’s disposal so that his death might wipe out the hate between the Dutch and German people. The prosecutor charged him with attempting to make a martyr of himself ? insisted on the death sentence as a matter of “justice to those who fell in the struggle for Dutch independence.”
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