Scaffolds were erected today in the court-yard of the Viennese jail for hanging three of the four Nazis convicted by the Peoples Court in the first war criminal trial in Austria with murdering 102 Hungarian Jews while transferring them from one concentration camp to another near Vienna. The fourth was sentenced to eight years of hard labor.
In pronouncing the death sentance, the presiding judge characterized the con demned men as “bloodthirsty brutes whose mentality is the best index to the Nazi character.” He said that all Nazis whose participation in the mass-murder of Jews could be shown would be brought to justice. The three who will be hanged are Rudolf Kronberger, Alous Frank and Wilhelm Neutefufel.
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