THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, May 5, 1961 Eichmann's Counsel Asks Immunity ] Ghetto for Nazi Witnesses; Plea Denied Survivor at Trial Tells of Uprising • (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) JERUSALEM, (JTA) = Dr. Robert Servatius put before the court trying Adolf Eichmann a formal request for the right to call four former officials of the Nazi regime to testify on behalf of the former Gestapo colonel. Attorney General Gideon Haus- ner, the chief prosecutor, prompt- ly replied to Eichmann's chief defense counsel that the four ex- Nazis would be granted Israeli visas but would be detained as criminals under the Israel law for the punishment of Nazis as soon as they arrived in Israel. The four former officials in- clude Prof. Franz Sis, who headed Bureau 2 of the Reich War Ministry, whom Servatius wanted to testify on Eich- mann's authority and rank, and Dr. Max Mertens, former Nazi military governor of Mace- donia, who was convicted of war crimes by a Greek military tribunal and who, Servatius said, sought from Eichmann a decision which was referred to a higher Nazi authority. The other Nazis whom Eich- mann's lawyer wants as witnesses are General Hermann Krumay, who was a deputy for Eichmann in Hungary and who, the defense attorney said, was prepared to testify that Eichmann had no con- nection with or responsibility for the murder of 100 children from the Czech town of Lidice; and Eberhardt von Thadden, former head of the German Foreign Min- istry Jewish department, with the same rank as Eichmann. Servatius said he wanted to call von Thadden to prove that orders about Jews from Hitler and Heydrich were under the jurisdiction of the German army and that Eichmann had not ex- ceeded orders. The West German attorney in- dicated he would like to call four or five others, but that this hope faced, difficulties because they were in Austria. Austrian laws ban participation of both defense and prosecution attorneys during a hearing on a questionnaire - he intended to submit to them for 'depositions, Servatius said. Hausner backed up his declara- tion that the four ex-Nazis would be subject to xarrest with the statement that the prosecution had a file on each one. He cited briefly from the past of ,each of the four and submitted that, un- der the circumstances, Servatius' request for their appearance was not practical. He added that the prosecution would accept sworn statements made by the four before a West German court or notary prov,ided an Israeli representative could attend for questioning. Servathis continued to press for admittance of such men as witnesses and argued that Is- raeli approval, presumably with guarantees of immunity, would create a "better impression." However, when he was told by the court that the Attorney Gen- Possible Nazi Witness at Eichmann Trial Is Austrian School Head VIENNA, (JTA)—Former SS Captain Wilhelm Hoettl, who has been mentioned as a possible witness in the trial of Adolf Eichmann, said he is willing to appear as a witness in the Jeru- salem trial if he is guaranteed 'safe conduct. Hoettl, now a school director in Bad Aussee, also said he is willing to appear before an Aus- trian court "to tell the truth about Eichmann." The Austrian Socialist news- paper, Arbeiterzeitung, mean- while charged editorially that the school of which Hoettl is director is a Nazi nest. The newspaper protested against a former high Gestapo official in that position and said that the Austrian se- curity and education offices should maintain c on tr o 1 of Hoettl's activities. eral, as the legal adviser of the Israel Government, was express- ing an official view of the Gov- ernment, Servatius agreed that no witness would come if he knew he faced arrest and prosecution. He indicated a preference for cross-examination of such wit- nesses b e f ore West German judges, rather than only their sworn testimony. Soon after, in Bonn, a spokes- man for the Justice Ministry promised full assistance in any interrogation of witnesses in West Germany for the trial. The spokesman said that "we, will grant all aid normally pro- vided by the international legal aid agreement". Justice Minister Fritz Schaef- fer told the Bundestag that the Central War Crimes Commis- sion in Ludwigsburg had received new documents found in the Washington archives on the Nazi period. lie said that while the Commission's study of the mate- rial had not yet been completed, the Commission expected the documents to be a great aid in its investigation of Nazi war crimes. JERUSALEM—One of the few survivors in the incredible revolt of the trapped hunger- and disease-ridden Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943 de- scribed Wednesday as a witness in the trial of Adolf Eich- mann the details of the heroic struggle. Mrs. Zivia Lubotkin told how the trapped Jews, using home- made bombs fused by matches, a few arms and a pitifully small supply of ammunition, stood off for weeks the thousands of superbly trained and equipped German troops ordered to round them up for deportation to Nazi death Camps. "We did not have a fight- ing chance," she said, speak- ing softly but without falter- ing. "It was quite clear to us that we had no prospect of winning in the military sense. But we knew that despite their strength we would be the winners ultimately be- cause we believed in a regime of justice to man." Mrs. Lubotkin testified that after Yom Kippur in 1940, the Nazis packed 350,000 Jews into ings are A wonderful feeling . . . to kn ii di ns or market safe regardless of business • ured safe to fluctuations. Your savin ab of the United $10,000 by the F .L.I.C., the Warsaw Ghetto, an area which she said "could barely hold 150,000 at the most. For days and nights on end Jewish families stood in the streets and there was now them in." o became She said t G which 12 to "one vast • " e crowded into a 15 peopl la s swept through room. d area and "t -r the ssibility of was o th s' and the etimes there ity of separating g om the dead." Somehow the youth n the ghetto e organ- ed and "a it of uprising she said. "Not a revo ion but a social upris- ing—a movement to keep the image of God which the Ger- mans were trying to de- stroy." When the youth move- • ment learned that the Nazis intended to annihilate every Jew "they took arms." On Yom Kippur, 1940, the Nazis announced by radio plans to set up "autonomous" Jewish quarters where. Warsaw's Jews would "enjoy educational and social freedom," she said. The Nazis transported thousands of Jews to a new ghetto and illu- sion ended when the "autono- mous zone" was suddenly sealed off and converted into a gigan- tic prison. he said in the new "one" n only SS men but also Polish ligans had free reign to do a thing which satisfied their istic impulses with impunity. e said the objective of the azis was to humiliate, demor- alize and sap the last vestige of energy before snuffing out the life of every Jewish captive. FURN ITURE SERVICE Refinishing - Resforing Furniture Repaired & Refinished in Any Color of Your Choice. 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