about 15 rounds — into Met- the Toronto men who Meyer

calfe.” had murdered:

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Major John D. Learmont of : : :
Truno, N.S., confirmed the evi- Captait, ay arent ee

Robt. M. Findlay; Pte. Ken Ped-
lar;. “Lt. B.D. Barkers CSM ne
Forbes and Pte. J. E. Bolt.

ones TN T ED dence against Meyer.
in prepara-
‘3s Nazi SS
(right). con-

Major J. Ross Mitchell Stone
of the N.S. Highlanders testi-
fied that he found 21 of his men
buried — killed by shots in the
back of the head and neck,

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against a sentence me y the St.

Meyer was brazen, unrepen-
tant at his trial. A court ab-
server said: ‘General Meyer is
“the prototype of an unrepenting,
callous war leader, a Hitler sol-

Meyer had no respect for the

dier who gave no quarter to his

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Canadian military court
sentenced SS General Kurt
Meyer to be shot. Meyer was
the commander of the 12th
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the Wehrmacht.

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cold blood Corporal T. R. David-
son and seven privates of the
N.S. Highlanders. se
Private G. P. Talbot testified
on the murder of his comrade,
Private J. Metcalfe, at Buronx.
Sergeant Stan Dudka of Stellar-

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guard pulling on Metcalfe’s pock-
et. He then let go of the pock-
et and Metcalfe stumbled for-
ward and the guard fired ap-
proximately four shots at him.

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away from the guard. He had

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cloth. Captain W. L. Brown of
Orillia, an Army chaplain, was
murdered too. That was testi-
fied to by Lieut. Grainer of
Stratford.

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claimed
that proof existed that 114 of

The Canadian Army

saying: “General Meyer has ap-
plied for clemency... This appeal
is now under consideration.
There is no doubt that he is, or
was a fine soldier, but I can’t
say how the appeal is going.”

Now the argument is advanced
that General Meyer
considerable experience of Soviet
tactics while serving on the
eastern front during the war—
and his experience would be
valuable to the generals pre-
paring for another world war.

SS General Meyer should have
been shot!

acquired

He must never be released!

ton, N.S. described Metcalfe’s been hit twice in the right side. aubhduiaone coe oe see ERE Every Canadian veteran and
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Meyer's trial opened on Decem- murder: “I saw no reason for ‘The guard let him lie there for en partisan of peace should speak

ber 10. In an 8,000-word indict-
ment Lt.-Col. Macdonald of Wind-
sor charged the Nazi
with being: “The motivating
force behind the cold-blooded,
deliberate and calculated killing

general’

the shooting of any prisoner 0i*
war for none tried to escape. I
heard a commotion and as I
turned around I saw a German

20 minutes and then went over
to him. The guard then emp-
tied the remainder of the ma-
gazine of his machine gun

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cold-bloodedly murdered by Mey-
er’s 12th SS Hitler Youth Divi-
sion.

Here are the names of six of

.

up. The campaign to release
this Hitlerite murderer must be
spiked!

secret processes to firms which

: % ” it organized or .with’ which it

of 43 Canadi risoners of war. i
Bees established close financial con-

These Canadian prisoners be- nections in the neutral coun-

longed to the Queen’s Own Rifles
ef Toronto, the Nova Scotia
Highlanders of Amhurst and of
Truro, the 1st Hussars of Lon-

con and the Cameron Highland- |

€rs of Ottawa.

The evidence was conclusive.

tries. In Holland, Krupp set up
Siderius A.G., which collected ar-
maments shipped from Germany
and which became the holding
company for a number of
Dutch firms working for Krupp.

“Connections were -also form-
ed with a number of armament

General Myer had declared: firms in Spain. The biggest deal
“My division takes no prisoners.” was with the Swedish firm of
Captain von lButtner, .Meyer’s Bofors, to which Krupp turned
adjutant had ordered C. S. Maj. over patents in return for a
Hagerton to read Meyer's orders controlling ownership in’ the
to the 15th SS Motorcycle com- firm. Through Bofors, control

Pany and every member of that
company had to sign that they

had heard and understood ,Mey- ~

t's orders to take no prisoners.

General Meyer said: “This is
retaliation for British RAF
“bombing!”

The court heard evidence to
‘prove: ;

1. That seven Canadian soldi-
ers were murdered on June 17,
tar behind the front lines,

Meyer personally, and then taken

LONDON
Re of munitions mak-

U.S. High Commissioner John

Nazi industrialists on trial for their war

erchant of death

showing war criminals filing out
of prison, looking at a sign on

i‘,
Four generations of Krupps

crimes.

prominent space to the arma-.
ment activities of other coun-

touch with the War and Navy

was established over a big sec-
tion of Finnish war industry.”

The Krupp trust helped to put
Hitler in power. On March 22,
1932, a du Pont agent wrote
his home office from Germany:

“It is a matter of common
gossip in Germany that LG. is
financing Hitler. Other German
firms who are supposed to be
doing so are Krupp and Thys-
sen’. ‘

When Hitler took over one of
his first acts was to set up a

er Alfred Krupp and other © the. wall which said: “Please tries, especially during. the fev- Provisional Supreme Economic
> 2. That seven Canadian soldi- German war criminals from pri- collect your weapons and cash _ erish years before 1914. Council. Among its members
ers had been interrogated by 20 jast week’ — on ordérs of on the way out.” “Krupp also remained in close were: Krupp, the armaments

king; Thyssen, steel trust; von

Cut from his H.Q; and shot. J. McCloy, who granted full par‘ Departments of Germany. Of- . Siemens, electric industry mag-
3. ‘Th ldier of dons — has: aroused a wave of have produced armaments in ficers. of all ranks, especially nate; Bosch, chemical trust;
That a Polish so resentment in Britain. _ Germany and other countries the high officials of the army Vogler, steel trust; Diehn, potash

Meyer’s staff had seen 18 Cana-
dians murdered at the SS Gen-
eral’s Ardenne Abbey, H.Q.

4. That Meyer had said ‘What
do we want with these prisoners?
They will only eat our rations.
In future take no prisoners!”

French peasants of Authie tes-
tified: ,

Maurice Hilkert | swore; “Six
Canadian prisoners , were shot
With their hands up.”

Louis Alparine swore: “I saw
4% wounded Canadian shot in
the head by a German officer.”

Albert Guilbert said: “A Ca-
Radian» soldier was shot down
by a German to whom he was

_ Surrendering.”

Sergeant Wm. MacKay of To-
ney River, N.S., testified that he

Saw the Germans shoot down in.

At Frankfurt, Germany, it was
announced that Krupp, who has
again bécome sole titular head
of the Krupp industrial empire,
may benefit from Marshall Plan

- Aid which helped rebuild many

of the Krupp plants.

London’s Sunday Pictorial has
commented: “They opened the
gates of a German prison and
they turned loose a man with
blood on his hands . . . the blood
of British soldiers, of Russians,
of .Americans and Frenchmen,
of Poles and Dutchmen and of
Belgians. The blood of millions.”

“Describing how Krupp and his,

prother kissed for photographers
outside the prison gates, the
Pictorial said: “And if millions
of mothers should think this
was a kiss of death, who will
plame them?” —

Lord Beaverbrook’s Sunday
Express featured a cartoon

since the early part of the 19th
century. In 1914 the navies of
Germany, Britain, France, Italy,
Japan, and the United States

were built of Kruppized steel.

At that time the Kaiser was
one of the- firms largest stock-
holders.

H. C. Engelbrecht and F. C.
Hanighen, in their revealing book
on armament makers, Merchants
of Death, wrote about the Krupp
firm as follows: ih

“No modern business methods
were unknown to Krupp. The
power of the press was known
and appreciated. Krupp owned
or controlled three great news-
papers, the Rheinisch-Westphae-
lische Zeitung, the Berlin Taeg-
liche Rundschau and the Neues-
ite Nachrichten. It was a sim-
ple matter to rouse public opin-
ion to a patriotic frenzy at any
time by war scares or by giving

and the admiralty, were on his
payrolls and could be counted

‘on to favor Krupp when con-

tracts were let by the govern-
ment.”

The Kaiser lost his empire and
Hitler was placed in power to
reclaim it:and throughout it. all
the' Krupp empire flourished.
James S. Allen tells how this
was done in his book, World:
Monopoly* and Peace. ;

_ “Through the European Steel

Cartel, the Krupp armament
combine was able to continue its
military production abroad. The
three big Krupp plants, em-
ploying 160,000 men, constituted
the biggest armament corpora-
tion in the world. Under the
Versailles Treaty, Krupp = sub-.
mitted to temporary demilitari-
zation of the German plants.
“In the meantime, the Krupp
trust transferred its patents and

king; von Schroeder, von Finck
and Reinhart, big banks.

Following Hitler’s defeat in
the Second World War, the head
of the_Krupp firm, Alfred Krupp
was prosecuted as a war. crimi-
nal and sentenced to jail. “In-
dustrial disarmament’ was be-
gun in the British and Ameri-
can zones, but soon changed to
a policy of -rebuilding German
heavy industry, including Krupp
in violation of the Potsdam ag-
reement.

Alfred Krupp has been re-
leased and again heads the giant
armament trust which bears his
name. In the London Sunday
Express cartoon showing Krupp
and his fellow-industrialists leave
ing jail, a British soldier is tel-
ling an American who holds the
gates open: “Now I suppose
they'll have us in court for
wrongful imprisonment.”

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