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Behind the bleak, high-walled jail at Werl, the British hold reluctantly to the remnant symbols of a once-firm resolution. The remnants are 130 convicted Nazi war criminals. They are the surviving handful of men the British once vowed to punish. That British passion is now spent; in its place is a German passion to set the criminals free. Last week Henri Nannen, editor of a Hamburg picture weekly, Der Stern, shockingly dramatized the issue...
With great relish he broke a story that two war criminals had escaped from Werl. Luftwaffe Pilot Hans Kühn had murdered three Allied flyers who parachuted down in 1943; Private Wilhelm Kappe had killed a Russian prisoner of war. According to Der Stern, the two escaped while working outside the jail walls, and were given a ride by a passing motorist who gladly picked them up though he could not help but recognize their war-criminal insignia...
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...
Former German Field Marshal Erich von Manstein left the British military prison in Werl on a three-month parole to enter a Kiel hospital and have a cataract removed from his left...
...visit his wife, who is critically ill in a Black Forest hospital, officials of the British military prison at Werl signed a seven-day parole for ex-Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, the Wehrmacht's 63-year-old Panzer specialist, who is serving a twelve-year war crime sentence. One condition of the leave: a pledge of honor not to talk to reporters...