Word: walitschek
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...American officer, explaining the difference between the U.S. Army's policy toward civilians in Belgium and Germany, had said: "In Belgium we ask them; in Germany we tell them." Now Vienna-born Captain Kurt Walitschek, of the U.S. Army, presiding at the summary military court trial of the four women, was prepared to demonstrate that policy...
Witnesses-two MPs-gave their evidence. The women's nattily dressed civilian counsel made no plea, though the women themselves excitedly explained that they had just gone back to their houses to get some clothes. Captain Walitschek listened, found all four guilty, fined them each 2,000 marks ($200) with the alternative of six months in jail. Friedel Souvignier wept, the others protested. The captain was polite but unmoved. He explained to newsmen that he wanted to set an example of severity. This is the way all U.S. Army courts will deal with those Germans who flout its military...
...other Germans were led before Walitschek: 62-year-old Wilhelm Siemens and his nephew, both accused of stealing $2 worth of coal which the U.S. Army had seized. According to the law laid down by General Dwight Eisenhower, the penalty for such a crime may be death. Captain Walitschek referred the case to a higher court...
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