Word: lpnagel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rnberg, Field Marshal Johannes Blaskowitz, 64, accused of butchering civilians and P.W.s in Poland, threw himself over a prison parapet, fell 30 feet to a tile floor, died of a crushed chest and punctured lungs. Next day, in Paris' Cherche-Midi Prison, General Otto von Stülpnagel, 69, convinced that he would be shot for shooting wartime French hostages, finally succeeded (second try) in hanging himself with strips torn from his bedding and underwear...
...expose his reckless gambling to the German people. "The leaders . . . were myself, General Erwin von Witzleben, commander of the Berlin garrison; Colonel General Ludwig Beck, my predecessor; Count von Helldorf, police president of Berlin; General von Brockdorf, head of the Potsdam garrison, and General Edwin von Stülpnagel. The commander in chief, von Brauchitsch, had been informed of the conspiracy...
When two Frenchmen slipped up to the Nazi military commander of Nantes early last week and riddled him with pistol bul lets, the Germans knew exactly what to do. They stationed military patrols around the city, imposed a 14-hour curfew. From Paris General Otto von Stülpnagel, commanding the German Army of Occupation, issued a terse communique. He offered a reward of 15,000,000 francs (to be paid by France) for the killers, promised he would execute 50 French hostages if the killers were not arrested in two days...
...French. One was not a Frenchman but an Anamese from Indo-China. But still the men who had shot Lieut. Colonel Karl Friedrich Holtz were free. Not even the promise of a sizable fortune had persuaded their friends to betray them to the Ger mans. General von Stülpnagel announced that he would shoot 50 more hostages if they were not found...
| 1 |