Friday, April 26, 1946

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Page Two

REPORT FROM
GERMANY

Jewish Refugee Medic to Receive
Culture Series
for Extraordinary Bravery
Features Gutman DSC
when seriously wounded
NEW YORK—Described by his even

By IRVING IIAYETT

Jewish Chronicle Foreign Correspondent

(Copyright 1916. All Rights Reserved)

This series of articles tells of the War Crimes
Trials in Frankfurt, Germany.

How The War Crimes Branch IV ork4

er was asked if he would talk—
in the hearing of the prisoner.
OME PEOPLE are not yet
Each day the interpreter refus-
aware of how the War Crimes
ed. Then the interpreter was
Branch of the army works.
taken from the cell. From a dis-
At the top of it all is the Judge
tance, out of sight, there came
Advocate General of the War
the sound of beatings punctuat-
Crimes Branch of the Army whose
ed by screams. Then, supposed-
headquarters are at number six
ly, the interpreter confessed.
Friedrich Strasse, Wiesbaden, Ger-
When they approached the sus-
many. The office is housed in a
pect and asked him if he would
building which was formerly the
talk, he readily agreed.
Dresden Bank. It is completely
The War Crimes Branch is de-
surrounded by barbed wire and termined that every man respon•
admission is by Identification on- sable for a concentration camp at-
ly.
rocity or killing will be tried.
The War Crimes Branch has They are seeking out the highest
five divisions: the administrative, commandant and the lowliest
presided over by one Col. Car- guard. If it is at all possible to
penter; the Investigation and Ap- locate these men and bring them
prehension, presided over by Lt. to trial, it will be done. These
Col. Ellis and Col. Straight; the men have a deep and abiding hat-
Prosecution, presided over by Col. red of SS troops and Kapos who
Breese; the Trial, presided over killed innocent people and shot
by Lt. Col. Seeley and Col. Hin- prisoners in uniform. They are
man; and the Post-Trial Review, determined men.
presided over by Lt. Col. Murphy.
When the Nurenberg trials are
The administrative section does over, the show will not by any
all the paper work. They see that means be finished. There are thou-
men are billetted and messed. sands of perpetrators being held
They see that salaries are paid, In internment camps. Each one
supplies are on hand and men re- will be tried. The evidence is be-
placed and assigned to duty.
ing gathered. The cases are being
prepared. It will probably not oe
Question Perpetrators
possible to convict or try every
The Investigation and appre-
SS man who was connected with
hension division questions per-
concentration camps because when
petrators after they are appre-
these men saw the jig was up,
hended. They take statements
they put on the Wehrmacht uni-
and get signed confessions to be
forms, prisoners' suits or civilian
used in the trials. In the war
clothes and escaped in the hills.
crimes trials, statements can be
They are being ferreted out but
used in evidence or as testimony
many of them are still too well
if oral testimony cannot be se-
hidden. Others are dead.
cured. It is also the functioh of
All Nazis Wanted •
this division to gather witnesses
All the Germans who were mem-
and take their statements.
bers of the Nazi party before 1933
The prosecution division gathers
are on the automatic wanted list.
all the statements and the evi-
This means that CIC (Counter In-
dence and briefs the case. They
telligence Corps) are out looking
go through thousands of pages of
for them. Many, of course, will
statements, cull out all that ).s
never be found. But many, many
superfluous and weave the threads
more have been found and are in
into a pattern.
custody, awaiting trial.
The trial section assists the reg-
The work, the material gathered,
ular Army Judge Advocates who
the witnesses questioned, the per-
do the actual trying of the cases.
petrators in custody are beyond
These are all experienced trial
belief in their magnitude. The Am-
lawyers. The trials will all be
ericans are determined that those
held either at Ludwlgsberg or at
who were innocent and suffered
Dachau where court rooms have
such unbelievable atrocities at the
been set up right in the site of
hands of the Nazi beasts who
the concentration camps.
called themselves humans shall be

Article 15

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Go Over Records

The function of the Review
Section is to go dyer the records
for errors and to see that the per-
petrators have been given a fair
trial and then either to affirm or
reject the sentences imposed. This
is the American way and the Ger-
mans can never get over their
surprise and contempt for this
kind of procedure.

AJY over Germany, there are
ins‘estigation teams, consisting of
an attorney, an intelligence of-
ficer, a reporter and an inter-
preter. These teams go out all
over the land. They ferret out
wit nesses, make investigations,
interrogate suspects and gather
the evidence. They lay the
groundwork for the trials.
Some of them, consisting of
regular army men, have been at
work since last May. The work
these men have done cannot be
overestimated. They have a free
reign in their work and their
methods of making suspects talk
are ingenious and highly effective.

There was one group of SS
men, all of them guilty, all of
them full of information, who re-
fused to talk. The information
had to be gotten somehow but
there was great difficulty since it
is forbidden to mistreat or beat
prisoners.
All of the men were put in one
room with an open door. One of
them was taken out and marched
past the open door with a black
hood over his head. A few min-
utes later, shots were heard. Af-
ter three of the men had been
marched past the door followed 'ay
the sound of shots, the rest de-
cided to talk. They were sure the.
Brat three had been executed.

Novel Method

In the Dachau case, a novel
method was used. A man who
would not talk was put in a
cell nest to a disguised inter-
preter. Each day, the interpret-

Igo Gutman, operatic tenor,
will be featured on the final pro-
gram in the Yiddish Culture Se-

ries arranged by the Yiddish Cul-
ture Committee of the Jewish
Community Center and the Jew-

ish Community Council to take
place at 9 p.m. Saturday, May 4,
at the Jewish Community Center.
Mr. Gutman will appear in a
program of traditional melodies
accompanied at the piano by Miss

Florence Kutzen. Assisting artists
on the program include Mr. Ju-
lius Chajes, pianist-composer; Miss
Emma Mutter Adams, violinist,
and Mr. Jacob Becker, cellist of
the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

The concert will be the finale
of this year's series of programs
sponsored by the Joint Commit-
tee. The series is supported by
organizations affiliated with the
Community Council which are in-
terested in Yiddish cultural acti-
vity. The series has included holi-
day features, lectures, concerts
and programs based on cultural

Stricken on April 1 while gen ,
ing as battalion commander at

Shoemaker, Weingarden was set
back on his road to recovery
when latent malaria, contracted in

viously seen action as a PC ship
commander.

unusual story to come out of the
unprecedented $100,000,000 cam-
paign of the United Jewish Appeal
for Refugees, Overseas Needs and
Palestine.
Dallas non-Jews, led by the
city's two outstanding publishers
and inspired by a Catholic rector,
a Methodist minister and a Bap-
tist layman, this year decided to
conduct their own non-sectarian
campaign on behalf of the United
Jewish Appeal.
Dallas, they reasoned, has few
Creeks, approximately 100 Chi-
nese, and not many British. In
separate campaigns during recent
years, Dallas contributed $12,000
for Greek relief, $40,000 for the
Chinese, and $190,000 for the
British. But what about the
Jews? European Jewry, they de-
clared, is today just as hungry,
as sick and as naked as were the
Greeks and Chinese. Why not a
general campaign in Dallas on
behalf of Europe's stricken Jews?
Why not a generous outpouring
of non-Jewish support to help the
Jewish community of Dallas at-
tain its extraordinary goal of
$400,000 for the relief, rehabili-
tation and resettlement of Eu-
rope's homeless and destitute
Jewish survivors? When the three
gentlemen rose from their lunch-
eon table, they had decided on a
plan of action.
The first to be approached
were Tom C. Gooch, president of
the Dallas Times-Herald, and Ted
Dealey, president of the Dallas
News. The two publishers were
asked to lead the campaign.

Would they accept? lien. is what
they said.
They'd be more than happy to
accept leadership; indeed, they'd
even pay the cost of the kick-off
luncheon. Not only that, but
they'd tell all Dallas about it in
their respective newspapers.

After the Dallas newspapers
had sounded the call for action,
telegrams were sent inviting 100
Christian leaders to meet for "an
important matter."

Of the 100 who were invited,
94 sat down to luncheon. They
had come to hear about "an im-
portant matter." This is what the
publishers told them. "We know
all of you are wondering what
this is all about. We'll tell you.
The United Jewish Appeal. We're
not going to take up any collec-
tions, but we're going to tell you
what we think Dallas Christians
ought to do about it. The Jews
have helped in every cause we
have had in Dallas. They've been
mare than generous. They have
done more than their share . .
and now you may want to take
part in something they are do-
ing."

Inspired by the words of the
leaders, soon all Dallas was be-
hind the drive. At the end of the
week, more than $70,000 had
been received through the mails.

Recently. Dallas Christians con-
cluded their unprecedented drive
when a check for $70,000 was
turned over to Julius Schepps,
campaign chairman, by Messrs.
Gooch and Dealey, co-chairmen
of the non-sectarian campaign.

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himself.
Roskamm was released from
Army service in January, 1941,
and went to Hawaii with an in-
fantry unit in April, 1942. After
a year and a half as an infan-
tryman, he became a medic and
soon thereafter had his first com-
bat experience on Makin. Then
followed months of service under
fire on Einwetok, Saipan, and fi-
nally Okinawa. He was honorably
discharged last August 2.
Rosskamm was released from
Buchenwald when his U. S. visa
was granted. He arrived in the
United States in the summer or
19;39 and held several jobs in
New York City and Indianapolis
as a dishwasher, soda clerk, :ind
butcher's helper. On Janua ry
1941, he volunteered for the
Army.

NEW YORK — The sum of $25,-
000,000, allocated under the. Paris
Reparation Agreement for the re-
movements in Jewish life.
habilitation and resettlement of
non-repatriable victims of German
Give to the A.J.C.
action, constitutes a first and pri-
or charge on the proceeds of Ger-
man external assets, the American
Jewish Conference has been assur-
ed in a communication received
Lt. Comdr. Elmore E. Weingar- from the State Department.
Property taken from Jews after
den, 29, son of Mr. and Mrs. Si
Weingarden, 3044 Elmhurst Ave., 1933 and now located in neutral
is convalescing from an appendi- countries will be restored to their
citis operation at the Naval Hos- owners, or their heirs, if they can
pital, Shoemaker, Calif. He expects be found, or will be made avail-
to be completely recovered by the able for Jewish rehabilitation and
resettlement.
first of May.

avenged. They will be.
(Next week's article will deal the Pacific, set in. He had pre-

with further details of the 5Iaut-
hausen Concentration Camp case.)

commanding officer on Okinawa
as "the bravest man I ever met,"
a 27-year-old refugee from Ger-
many who served as a U.S. Army
medic in some of the war's tough-
est battles on Pacific islands, will
be awarded the Distinguished
Service Cross on April 28 at a
public ceremony in Prospect
Park, Brooklyn, N. Y.
The refugee hero is slim, wiry
T/5 Leo Rosskamm, a native of
Merlau, Oberhessen, Germany,
who came to the United States in
August 1939 after six months of
torture in the Buchenwald Con-
centration Camp.
The DSC, one of the highest
American military decorations,
will be conferred on Rosskamm
at a ceremony arranged by the
New York State Department and
the Kings County Council of the
Jewish War Veterans of the
United States, at which 1,000 new
members will be inducted.
"He's a real hero and lie stands
out even among medical aid men
who are all heroes," said Ross-
kamm's commanding officer, Lt.
A. M. Oshlag, First Battalion
Medical Detachment, 106th In-
fantry, 27th Division, when in-
terviewed on Okinawa.
Rosskamm grinned and said:
"I am trying to do what I can.
I owe plenty to the United States
and I am anxious to repay it."
The citation awarding the DSC
to the young refugee describes
how Rosskamm, in several bat-
tles on Okinawa during April,
1945, repeatedly dashed into di-
rect Japanese fire to care for
wounded buddies and carry them
to safety, protected them with his
own body, and refused to quit

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