At Schwerin a German railwayman named Ulrich Middelborg was executed for taking food from a freight car. At Hamburg an air-raid warden went to the gallows for taking a few yards of blackout cloth from a bombed house. At Hindenburg, in Upper Silesia, Bank Manager Georg Miethe was put to death for conversation which "failed to set an example of loyalty for his employes."
These manifestations of justice in the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler were by no means isolated. The German press and radio are reporting a half-dozen or more such cases...
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