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Died. Hermann Röchling, 82, head of the Röchling Iron and Steel Works in Völklingen through World Wars I and II, sometime Nazi industrial boss of the Saar; in Mannheim, Germany. The first industrialist to be convicted of waging aggressive war (1948), Röchling had his seven-year sentence boosted to ten by a French appeals court, was later released in 1951, and barred with his family from entering the Saar or his factories, now French...
...Saarbrücken hard-jawed Hermann Röchling, Nazi industrialist, and reputed slush fund paymaster, snorted "Germany will not interfere with Saar Jews, Socialists and Communists! I suppose they will leave the Saar." After sleeping on this the Saar steel magnate said next day, according to a correspondent of London's Sunday Express, "A certain number of Communists will be sent to camps, unless they are converted into honest people. The 40,000 Saar unemployed will be mustered into the German Labor Front and set to building public works. A few foolish clergymen will be removed-by their...