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A 10th Anniversary
and Its
Preceding Tragedy:
The Martyrdom
of the Eleven
Hundred Thousand
Children

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VOLUME 27, No. 13

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:German Court Frees Nazi Who
Supplied Cyanide to Kill Jews

Court Orders State Department
To Issue Passport to Dr. Nathan,
Executor of Dr. Einstein's Estate

WASHINGTON, (JTA) — A Federal Court order
was Issued directing the State Department to issue a
passport to Dr. Otto Nathan, executor of the estate of
the late Dr. Albert Einstein. The government may.appeal
the decision.
The State Department has refused to specify what
the charges against Dr. Nathan are, or to allow him to ,
confront his accusers. Dr. Nathan, who has been trying
to get a passport for the last two and a half years, said
he wanted to go abroad to seek cooperation in making
available an unpublished Einstein manuscript.

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FRANKFURT, (JTA)—Dr. Gerhard Peters, whom a local court had found to be an
impenitent Nazi who supplied at least 5,000 pounds of a special brand of potassium in the
full knowledge that it was to be used to asphyxiate human beings, walked out of a court
here a free man. He was charged with collaboration in the murder' of at least 300,000
people, most of them Jews, at the-Auschwitz death camp.
Peters will return to his post as a management executive in a chemical plant near
Cologne. His trial here resulted in an acquit tal 'and- the reversal of six previous guilty
verdicts.
Judge Werner Hummerich, in his summation, said that it was impossible to believe
that the defendant really thought the mass concentration camp executions were legal.
But, the Judge contended, no "conclusive proof" existed that the Zyklon B poison gas
crystals furnished to the Auschwitz camp by Peters' "Gerinan Society for Vermin Exter-
mination" were actually put to use in the gas chambers there. Possibly the crystals
were used in some innocuous fashion by the S. S. officer in charge of potassium cyanide
procurement, Lt. Col. Gerstein, the summation went on, despite the fact that the moving
confession made by Gerstein in 1945 before he committed suicide, did not even claim
that he had ever sidetracked any of the regular shipments from Peters' plant.
Yet if that were the' case, the Judge went on, was Peters still not guilty even of
being an 'accessory to attempted murder? The Judge answered his own question with a
"no," and went on to say that conviction on that ground would indeed; have been pos-
sible at the time of the crime or even during_ Peters' six earlier trials, But the German
penal code had been changed in 1953, Judge Hummerich pointed out, and since that time
"participation in attempted, but unsuccessful killings" is no longer punishable.
Peters himself, in a final statement, said that his intention had only been "to make
possible a more humane method of killing" and that he was "upset" at the "abuses" to
which his Zyklon B had been subjected. A last surprise witness, Dr. Otto Wolken, who
came from Vienna at his own expense, was heard just before the Peters declaration was
made.
Still trembling at the pictures conjured up his own testimony, Dr. Wolken, a former

camp inmate, testified under oath that DEGESCH Zyklon B cans were stored in a special
basement. As soon as new transports of Jewish prisoners arrived, he continued, the cans
were taken to the gas chambers in ambulances bearing Red Cross insignia.

Neo-Nazi's Appointment Arouses Protest,

FRANKFURT — Four

German institutions
of higher learning, led by the world-famed Goet-
tingen University, have protested the appoint-
ment last week of Leonard Schluetter, neo-Nazi
leader and publisher of neo-Nazi books as Min-
ister of Education and Religion in the State of
Lower Saxony.

Israel Fibers: Workers

at 'the Supra 'Paper

Mill sort flax fibers before they are packed. in bales. Op-
erations here and in other Israeli paper mills are being
improved as a result of research at the Institute for Fibers
and, Forest Products Research in Jerusalem where four
• experts from the United Nations Technical . Assistance Ad-
. Ministration are helping to develop the cellulose, paper
and wallboard, and fiber and textile industries. Much of
the research institute's equipment was supplied through
United Nations technical aid.

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The Rector and Senate of Goettingen University,
the Rector of Brunswick Institute of Technology, the
Rector of the Pedagogical Academy of Brunswick and
the Director of the Pedagogical Academy of Goettin-
gen/have resigned in protest against the appointment.
While professors continue to run classes, students in
Goettingen, and to a lesser extent in Brunswick, went
on strike last week-end in support of the edUcators'
protest. Friday night some 3,000 students marched
through Goettingen in a torchlight parade carrying
signs denouncing Nazis and the appointment of
Schluetter.
In the Lower Saxony Parliament, where no voice
had been lifted in protest against the appointment of
34-year-old Schlueter, an official of the Christian
Democratic Party joined Dr. Thomas Dehler, head of
the Free Democratic Party of which Schlueter is mem-
ber, in defending neo-Nazis and in denouncing stu-
dents and faculty members of schools for "attempting
to influence the Parliament's freedom of decision."
In his own defense, Schlueter, who helped organize the
Socialist Reich Party which has been outlawed as neo-
Nazi by the Bonn government, claims to have had one
Jewish grandparent.

Lydda Reunion

Wouk at ZOA House: Author HER-

MAN WOUK shows his wife the beautiful Jerusalem-
printed Bible presented him by ZOA Daniel Frisch House,
Israel's largest single cultural institution, on theoccasion of
- his only public lecture in Israel delivered before more
than 3,000 persons last week at the Tel Aviv center.
Looking on •is Mrs. GUSTA SINGER, the House's admin-
Astratrix. Mr. Wouk lauded the country's religious vigor,
- the alertness of its citizens and the courage and progress
_observed in rural settlements during his several-weeks-

long inspection of Israel.
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Partially paralyzed Mrs. GER-
Z IS LEDERMANN, reunited
with her daughters, PN INA
and SARAH, after years of
separation, is shown in the
photo on the right at Israel's
Lydda Airport. The reunion,
and Mrs. Ledermann's arrival
in the Jewish state, were made
possible by Malben, the Joint
Distribution Committee wel-
fare program on behalf of
aged, ill and handicapped new-
corners to the H o I y Land.
From Lydda the youngsters re-
turned to the kibbutz where
they are living and Mrs. Leder-
mann was taken in the Malben
ambulance above to Pardess
K a t z Hospital for further
treatment. Funds for Malben,
as well as other aspects of
JDC's overseas programs, are

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provided by the WA...

Several Jewish Leaders-
Win Re-Election as.VIPs

LONDON, (JTA) -- Barnett Janner,
honorary president of the Zionist,Feder-
ation here, was re-elected as a Labor
Member of Parliament for Leicester
Northwest in Britain's parliamentary
elections. He is one of a number of
Jews who were returned on both Labor
and Conservative tickets. His son, Gren-
ville, who was contesting his first elec-
tion on behalf of the Labor Party, was
defeated.
Another Jewish communal leader
who was returned by his • constituents
was Sir Henry D'Avigdor Goldsmid, who
won the newly-created electoral division
of Walsall West for the Conservatives.
Sir Henry is president of the Jewish
Colonization Association.
Among Jewish MP's reelected, all of
them Laborites, were Emanuel Shinwell,
David Weitzman, Sidney SilVerman,
Julius Silverman, Maurice Edelman,
Maurice Orbach, who is general secre-
tary of the Trades Advisory Council
which deals with discrimination in em-
ployment and business, and Poale Zion
leader Ian Mikardo, who is one of
Aneurin Bevan's closest aides.

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