kia LCN: ii ser pel A NAZI MURDERER HEADS WEST BERLIN 'S HEINRICH ULRICH WERNER, police chief of West Berlin, the showcase of Western Freedom, was a leading Nazi killer dur- ing World War II. Here are the facts, as_ they were revealed, together with documentary evidence, in East Berlin on Aug. 31. HANS ULRICH WERNER. Born: Sept. 19, 1914, in Brom- berg, Germany. 1936. Joined the fascist police, promoted to lieutenant in 1939. 1938. Joined the gendarmes in the Saar territory. Member of the National Socialist Party and of é the Hitler SS. 1943: Sent to the school for Colonial Police in Oranienburg, and graduated. Summer, 1943. Named captain under the commander of >oslic: for the North Caucasus and the Ukraine. Werner’s company was assign- ed to the so-called ‘Occupation Commando Buerger,’’ which was given “Special tasks” by the SS and police forces. Among these were: combatting partisans, re- cruitment of forced laborers, shooting of hostages. When, in 1943, the fascist maraudérs were forced to re- treat by the Red Army, special occupation commando groups were delegated to erase the traces of the criminal mass executions of the years 1941- 1942. : The ‘Occupation Commando Buerger’’ was engaged in this activity. During this period Werner supervised so-called ex- humation and crematicn com- mandos at Stalin. War prisoners and transported civilians were compelled to dig out the mass graves, and to put the corpses on pyres for burning. As soon as the wretched pris- oners had completed their hor- rible tasks, and levelled the ex- eavations again, they were mur- dered. 1944. Werner was sent to Italy where the ‘Occupation Com- mando Buerger’’ carried out similar activities. After Aug. 9, 1944, Werner act- ed as first staff officer at the SS and police headquarters of Upper Italy. In this post he was mainly responsible for planning the operations of the police com- mandos against the civilian population. After 1945 he received several promotions at the police schools in Hiltrup and Duesseldorf. Up to the time of his transfer to West Berlin he was deputy leader of the police school at Hiltru> where the police was trained for civil war. Now he is the commander of the West Berlin police. Here are some of the other Hitler SS leaders who are now part of the West Berlin police force. KURT HUHN, police council- lor, and group. commander in the U.S. sector. Officer in SS-police. battalion 106, participated Sept. 1, 1939, in the invasion of Poland. Partici- pated in pdgroms against the Jews. In 1943 he- was a staff officer in the SS — police command in Riga, Latvia. Responsible for the massacre of Jews there. In 1943 he was sent to Yugo- slavia as a company chief, in the notorious SS-police regiment 14 (Griesel) for terroristic acts against the population. “HARTMAN, chief commissar of police and leader of the police district 125 in Charlottenburg. Joined the Berlin police in 1927. Participated in 1929, in the bloody May Day attack on Berlin workers. He has been a member of the Nazi party since 1931. Dur- ing World War II he was Captain and battalion commander of the SS-police regiment 15. Participated directly in a mass shooting of Soviet citizens and ews. ra oe HEINRICH ULRICH WERNER 1944. Sent to Italy for action against the partisans. Active par- ticipant in the bloody suppres- sion of the general strike of the Italian workers against the war. Participant in the shooting of hostages in the Pirelli works on Dec. 13, 1944. HANS JOACHIN KOHLMAR- GEN. Police councillor. Chief police inspector of Charlotten- burg. Member of the Nazi party since 1931, policeman until 1934, when he became a member of the Adolph Hitler Bedyguard. Pro- moted to SS storm troop leader. He was- personally responsible for 70 killings. 500,000 JOBLESS IN BRITAIN The number of unemployed in Great Britain rose to above half a million during the mid- dle of October, according to figures issued by the Minis- try of Labor. The total on October 15 was 501,263, making 2.2 per- cent of the working popula- tion compared with 1.6 per- _cent a year previously. BN eer a yeas 44.000 000 sq. mi. F opulation ee . a = 7 million ks Snrpent: ctby 5. Shi 05 > en os New York © avana — pop.: 7,780,000 pop.: 785,000 Strategic H-bombers 1,500 Nil Long-range or land-based H-rockets ....-- Nil Armed Forces ..........--+-- 2,700,006 300,000 eee eee Sy aS 862 10 ships ASS peaaces sees. db Oee Panes 75 - 200 planes Troops abroad ..........---- 700,000 Nil Bases abroad ...........-..-. more than 250 Nil Sources: Statesman’s Year Book: U.S. News and World Revort. “September 25 and Oetober 8, 1962: General Norstad. London ‘Times. 14 187. POLICEMEN tet. Commer bietes die Gewihr, G09 er sich jederzeit ruc mationalecrialistischen Staat e¢insetat. obs en, eationalserialiatieaches Gedankeng Uatergedenen au veruitteln und sie sur volien Ainenve eter mote etisehen ‘Staat cu ereichen. Ral ties fur des tes e etre rengen tosesssee rleutaant der “Werner provides the guarantee that he will act at any time unreservedly in the interests of the National Socialist state. He understands how to indoctrin- ate his men with National Socialist ide- 12, 1939) ology, ‘and or edurate them in the se of complete devotion to the Nation Socialist state.” (Testimonial for Hans-Ulrich Werner, signi®” by the Commander of Duisburg Police, Ju! cine be hutsgpolizei durchave mits (Condensed from an inter- view with JOHN GRITTEN) silver-haired philosopher with a zest for life sits all through the night compos- ing urgent messages to save the lives of tens, perhaps hundreds, of millions. Into his peaceful, unpreten- tious home in North Wales, come the replies to those mes- sages from.the most influen- tial men in the world’s most powerful states. The telephone rings almost - constantly. Letters and tele- grams pour in. Out of almost 600, only two are critical. It is 2:30 in the morning. AY message arrives from the Pre- sident of the United States. Having for several days ig- nored Lord Russell’s m2ssage to him, on the pretext that it was lost, President Kennedy now upbraids him for being critical of the U.S. “TJ think your attention might well be directed to the burglars rather than to those Lord Bertrand Russell: tireless peace fighter ‘who have caught the burg- lars,” say the brusque mes- sage. . An hour later, 3:30 a.m., the calm and _ indefatigable worker sends the President another message: “I beg you not to invade Cuba or to risk nuclear war . it is in your hands to transform a situation of grave crisis into one of immense hope.’”’ The message is: sign- ed formally: ‘Respectfully, Bertrand Russell.” * * a..~, Ten minutes later another message goes to the Soviet. Premier. It will be recalled that it was Premier Khrush- chev’s immediate reply to Lord Russell’s first message that broke the mounting ten- sion following President Ken- nedy’s threat to search Soviet ships in the Atlantic. Now Lord Russell sends over the wires: ‘May I hum- bly appeal for your further help in lowering the tempera- ture despite the worsening sit- uation. Your continued for- Earl Bertrand Russell, the 90-year-old British philosopher and world-renowned peace figure, who helped hold the world back from going over the brink. Noy. 9, 1962—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—" bearance is our great hop® and he signs it cordially “With my high regard 4 sincere thanks, Bertrand 8 sell.” Another ten minutes 89° by and a third message is © patched, this time to Dr. Fi Castro in Cuba: ‘I appeal you with all my heart to low United Nations insP tion and to seek United tions. protection. Such a 8°, ture from you is not req i by International Law (put) would give mankind 2 i¢ prieve from certain confit and make survival possib: ple “The world would ris¢ 4 support you in thankfulne®,, And this message is sié “Anxiously and respectful” Bertrand Russell. % * * eC’ After only three hours wd sleep, Lord Russell retul? to his correspondence. In reply to the questio? a what had prompted him send his messages to W? od! leaders, Ear] Russell renns “T have taken this kind of itiative for a long time ultimate and absolute dis4 is nuclear war and I bé that any settlement is P° than none. “T have tried very pard impress this on the W oa But I don’t generally get response. What is new | time,” he added wit chuckle, “is that there a response.” the Russell believes Khrushchev replied 1 at He because he recognized t , was genuinely neutral non-partisan. “Do you see any Tf explanation for Kennedy’s action ove he was asked. “T think his actio? most ‘profoundly able,” came the reply: I understand the AM€ lc don’t like missile beta wad to their territory, it 8 they have gone aber pee most unfortunate.” ; But the telephone | were still coming iM dealt with them eve? ate. stet eason® presi oe r cub?