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...After serving a five-year term for "threatening the security" of Communist China, the Rev. Paul J. Mackensen Jr., last missionary of the United Lutheran Church in America to remain in China, was released from a Shanghai prison. Baltimorean Mackensen said he had decided to stay in Shanghai if he could find a job there. "I learned something of the program for social changes taking place in China," he said. "Now I'd like to study what is going...
That was Editor Nannen's story. What were the British going to do about it? Last week they opened the doors of Werl and liberated another war criminal, former Colonel General Eberhardt von Mackensen, whom they had sentenced to death only six years before. Mackensen had transmitted the orders to the SS for the infamous Ardeatine caves massacre of 335 Italian hostages. Mackensen's boss in Italy, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, also sentenced to die for the Ardeatine massacre, were already out, released to secure medical treatment. So was Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, who drew...
...Kappler's superiors, Field Marshal "Smiling Albert" Kesselring and Generals Kurt Maeltzer and Eberhard von Mackensen, were originally condemned to death by a British military court on similar charges, later had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment...
Coolly fingering the long, deep dueling scar on the left side of his face, Kappler told the court how, after long consultations with Mackensen and Maeltzer, he had combed the streets of Rome looking for hostages. There were not enough condemned men in the Regina Coeli prison, so he had had to fill out the list with 57 Jews. Asked why he had shot 15 more than ordered, he explained: "Somebody must have sent them as extras, I guess...
Whatever it may have thought of the guilt of Kesselring or Kappler (soon to be tried themselves), the court sentenced Mackensen and Maeltzer to death by firing squad. For once the courtroom was almost quiet, but from the back, where the widows were gathered, gratefully came one word: "Grazie...