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Murder Plot in German Occupation Home Ends in Death Sentences
In a British zone report titled German Grand Guignol and set in a crowded Adolf Dierkes home, a tangle of affairs and jealousy leads to murder. Rudolf and Hartwig kill Frau Wedler or attempt it. Dierkes and Klara are implicated. Frau Wedler becomes the first woman sentenced to death by a German civil court since occupation. The court commutes Dierkes’ sentence to life imprisonment as she is pregnant.
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Reet
Adolf Dievkes
Dierkes
Klara
Frau Hen Wedler
Alfons Kneswig
Rudolf
Difrees
Studeif
Ran Welder
Ha Bea Tiog
Rudelf
Jara
Hartwig
Frau Wedler
Herr Wedler
Uartwig
Frau Dierkes