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...Nauheim's plush Park Hotel, the most shocking Army scandal of World War II reached its climax last week. Grim and flushed, his green eyes squinting belligerently through steel-rimmed glasses, Colonel James A. Kilian, for 26 months commandant of the notorious 10th Reinforcement Depot at Lichfield (England), heard an Army court-martial pronounce its verdict: not guilty of "knowingly" condoning the brutalities practiced in Lichfield's prison stockade, but guilty of "permitting" them. The sentence: a $500 fine, an official reprimand...
Note and compare: Lieut. Cubage of Lichfield fame is to undergo the embarrassment of a reprimand plus a $250 fine [TIME, June 24]; Sergeant Smith-three years' hard labor and dishonorable discharge...
...long-drawn-out, embarrassed "Lichfield trials" at last produced the conviction of an officer. Before the court at Bad Nauheim, Lieut. Granville Cubage of Oklahoma City, accused of ordering "cruel and unusual" punishments on G.I. prisoners at the Lichneld Reinforcement Depot, had pleaded that higher officers were to blame. The court-martial fined him $250 and issued a reprimand. The wrist-slapping indicated that the heat was to be turned on the higher...
Colonel James A. Kilian, former Lichfield commandant and the first higher-up arraigned, threw the court into uproar with contentious motions. He had appealed to President Truman for an inquiry into the trials. He called General Joseph T. McNarney, the Army's boss in Europe, to the stand. Higher-ups were going to be hard...
These things non-prisoners transients saw at Lichfield. What went on behind the barred windows, only the prisoners and the guards knew, and the guards spoke only to one another. The situation, to outsiders, was as full of intrigue as a paper-bound detective novel, and when prisoners left Lichfield, they departed in closely-guarded groups, with no chance to reveal what had happened inside the iron bars...