LONDON: Dr. Karl Wissman, the last German Press Attache in Lisbon, for whom the Portuguese have been searching since he escaped from detention camp in 1945, committed suicide by poison when the police went to arrest him yesterday [Jan 15]. As he died, he uttered the cry “Heil Hitler”. Police agents found Dr. Wissman hiding in his own house in Lisbon. When they tried to arrest him, Dr. Wissman swallowed a phial of poison.

Hiding in the same house, the police also found Adolf Nassenstein, who had been classed by the Allied authorities as a “dangerous Gestapo agent”. Nassenstein attempted to shoot himself but his gun misfired and he is now under arrest. …[Both] were part of a group of wanted Germans who were to have been repatriated by air to Germany soon after the war ended but failed to present themselves at the airport.

[Meanwhile, as reported from Washington,] Reports [stating] that Russia is prepared to renounce all claim to reparations from the current production in Germany were described on Tuesday [Jan 14] by a United States State Department official as “tremendous news, if true”.

Published in Dawn, January 17th, 2022