German Youth Leaders Uncover Dramatic
Evidence Against 3,000 Ex-Nazi Judges
Bin-Nun to Command, Israel Naval Forces
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years as commander of the
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HAIFA — Capt. Yochai Bin- ! Navy.
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Nun took command of Israel's I The new naval chief was one
Navy Tuesday in a special cere- ! of 12 men decorated for sink-
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wished to do so but that many; Mayor Willy Brandt declined mony in Haifa Bay, in which ing the Egyptian navy
By SAUL CARSON
of the 3,000 currently-sitting to accept the figure of 3,000 the newly-acquired ...submarine , "Farouk ' in the 1948 war with
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judges had sentenced people to judges, and expressed dis- Tanin and other Naval units • the Arab states. He was also
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death on the flimsiest of ex- approval of the "over drama- participated. Capt. Bin-Nun re-; active in Haganah naval activi-
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tized" manner in which he said places Commodore Shmuel Tan- : ties before establishment of the
BERLIN—At least 3,000 of cuses.
the 10,800 judges in West
He showed this correspondent the two youth leaders were kus, who is retiring after six ; state.
Germany and - Berlin have Nazi dossiers on 41 such judges, handling the question.
records, and they will all be every one of whom now is on
He said that "responsible GM-
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immune from prosecution on the bench in 30 cities in West ; cials" in both West. Berlin and
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Sam Monast
May 8 under the statute of Germany.
West Germany "are certainly
limitations, two leaders of
He cited two cases. In one, looking into the problem and
Certified Public Accountant
democratic youth organizations a judge sentenced to death a doing what they can." He said
charged here Tuesday.
Pole accused of hiding a Jewish that in West Berlin alone a
announces
They are Reinholdt Strecker, child. In another, a Pole who number of such judges ha
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a
29, chairman of the judicial had similarly hidden -a Jewish been quietly forced off the
the removal of his office to
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investigation committee of the child, was given a four-year bench. He said he favored this
SoCialist Students Association sentence on a technicality.
procedure rather than one
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of the Federal Republic, and
which would "make out of
Detroit 38, Michigan
Wolfgang F. Hoa , 24, member I The dossiers consisted of Germany a divided camp where
photostatic
copies
of
court
p.
of the West Berlin executive
one man brands another."
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conunitte: of the League for records obtained by Strecker
from
archives
in
Communist-
Human Rights. Both are stu-
co
dents at the Free University ! controlled East German y.
as
;Strecker said he had to go
here.
They insisted that not enough there to get records which were
was being done to cleanse what unavailable here because all
Hoag called the "j udicial ! records of former Nazis in West
Stables," and that most of the ; Germany had been impounded
Juvenile Court Judge Nathan
projected actions would be too by United States authorities.
He said that the Federal At- J.. Kaufman and attorney Har-
late in the face of the May 8
deadline. Under West German ' I torney General A. A. Guede had i old Norris were cited this week
law, criminal proceedings can- I examined the photostatic copies by the Michigan Chronicle for
not be started after 15 years lof the record:, of the 41 judges "outstanding community service
from the official date of the ; he had accused and had found in 1959." •
collapse of the Nazi regime the cases were authentic. The
The Chronicle, a Negro' news-
which has been fixed at May 8, Attorney General, Strecker said, paper published in Detroit,
had filed formal charges against chose the two Jewish -lepders
1945.
Strecker, who has spent two the 41 demanding their removal
YOU EXPECT MORE
years studying the records of from the bench and punishment
FROM HAMILTON
about 10,000 Nazi judges, said as ex-Nazis.
Commenting on criticism of
BEN GREEN
AND GET IT !
he found that - at least 3,000
JACK MANN
were now serving as judges who , his going to East Germany for
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the
records,
the
youth
leader
had "distorted the law" during
the Nazi period "by sentencing said, "I don't say that my
people to :xecution for crimes records have to be used. The
that were not deserving of capi- , West German authorities can
get their own copies. They do
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tal punishment."
He said that his investigation that in cases of ordinary police
■■
•rik
had shown that judges under crimes, petty thieves and simi-
the Nazi regime could take : lar criminals. Why do they re- Judge 'Kaufman • Norris
lenient action even against con- ! fuse to go to the East to get
along with six other men and
victed criminals if they had records of ex-Nazis?"
women "as symbolic of the
achievement in their fields."
The citations were for "out-
standing contributions to good
community relations in the field
of public service, civil rights,
education and business."
Judge Kaufman was called
"easily one of the outstanding •
jurists of 1959." The Chronicle
award. called attention to his
"patient and sympathetic, han-
if Does
dling of matters involving juve-
niles and their problems.
Make A
"His refusal to permit ques-
tions of race or religion to
Difference
enter into efforts to secure facil-
ities for handling and, correct-
Where You
ing juvenile delinquency cases
marked him as a fighter for the
Save
little people and a conscienti-
ous public servant."
The citation to Norris. presi-
You have extra earn-
dent of the local chapter of the
ing days at Guardian
Civil Liberties Union, was made
in the field of civil rights. The
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31/2% current rate as if
Department which resulted in
you had put it in your
the revelation of the large num-
account
on the 1st.
ber of arrests on suIpicion made
against Negroes and his cham-
pioning of the proposal- that a
Citizens Review Board should
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Eshkol Submits Budget
to Knesset for Debate
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JERUSALEM— Finance Min-
ister Levi Eshkol Tuesday in-
troduced into the Knesset - an
interim budget • of 400,000,000
pounds ($224,000,000) for the
-first quarter of the fiscal year,
which starts April 1.
In putting the measure before
the house. Eshkol anticipated
that debate in the Knesset
would not be completed before
the April 1 deadline.
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