The Key West Citizen

NUREMBERG. Hitler's bath was so important to Germans that one of the world's biggest iron and steel magnates was interested in the quality of the tubs. This ironical situation was disclosed in a document that may be introduced in the trial of Friedrich Flick and five of his associates who formed the giant industrial combine known as "Flick Concern." They are charged with helping to form the German war plan. The paper is a letter written to Flick by a subordinate, Moeller, who wrote in 1936: "I want to tell you about the order for 11 bathtubs for the house Wecheafeld Obersalzberg. We have been told that these tubs are partly for the personal use of the Fuehrer. We will certainly take care that these tubs are of the best quality." Moeller signed the letter, however, without the "Heil Hitler" then current. He used instead, "with German greetings," whatever that means. U. S. Prosecutor Charles Lyon of Great Neck, L. I., dug up the document in the preliminary preparation of the case against Flick, first industrialist to be tried as a war criminal. Lyon commented: "This is the man who insists he had little connection with Hitler and was only a business man."