People: Occupied Zone

In Regensburg prison, a violent inmate attacked Fellow Prisoner Franz von Papen, gave him a beating, reportedly busted his nose and a cheekbone.

In Augsburg, denazification authorities jailed Emmy Göring for trial on a charge of having been a Nazi. Also jailed after long thought: the widow of Poland's Governor General Hans Frank, the wives of ex-President of the Reichsbank Walther Funk, ex-Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach.

In Nürnberg, Willy Messerschmitt, of the Messerschmitts, who was also awaiting denazification proceedings, said he had "received an offer from the Americans" to come on over and help develop an atomic-energy-propelled airplane. He was thinking...

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