Hoetti's Expose of Eichmann's Crimes E Ben-Gurion's Anti-Zionist Prejudices Editorials Page 4 Tragic Account of Post-War Status of Surviving Jews DETROIT A Weekly Review in Germany of Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Vol. XXXIX No. 11 Printed in a 100% Union Shop Commentary Page 2 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.—VE 8-9364—Detroit 35, May 12, 1961—$5.00 per Year; Single Copy 15c Need Not Wait for Top Powers Golder Meir Says Israel Is Ready to Demilitarize (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) STOCKHOLM—Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel's Foreign Minister, told a press conference here Monday night that Israel is prepared to participate in a demilitariza- tion of the Middle East area without waiting for the major powers to act for general demilitarization. Mrs. Meir, who is in Sweden on an official visit, also said that Israel is engaged only in research into the peaceful uses of atomic energy and not in weapons research. She said that Israel is opposed in principle to all weapons and added that Israel is prepared to enter a peace agreement or even long term nonaggres- sion agreements with the Arab countries. She said Israel hopes that Algeria will emerge • as an independent state with respect for the rights of others, but added that Israel fears an independent Algeria would follow the paths of "a certain other neighbor"—presumably a reference to Morocco. Mrs. Meir was honored with a government dinner at which Foreign Minister Osten Unden declared that Israel's restoration was the answer to the attempts of the Nazis to obliterate the Jewish people from the earth. The Swedish official said that it is "tragic" that it had been impossible to "smooth out the conflicting interests between Israel and the neighboring coun- tries." The Swedish diplomat added that it had been possible in the past to solve still more difficult inter- national problems and that Sweden hopes sincerely for peace in the future between Israel and its Arab, neighbors. Tale of Annihilation Reconstructed for Eichmaituut Tribunal (Direct JTA Teletype - Wire to The Jewish News) JERUSALEM — A report on the Nazi destruction of the Dutch Jewish community spelled out Wednesday for the court trying Adolf Eichmann the by- now-familiar tale of the methodical sadism of the Nazis in • the assembly and murder of their helpless victims in Holland. • - The witness was Dr. Joseph Melkman, former director of the Yad Vashem, the Israeli center for the documentation of the Nazi holocaust, who had done research on the Dutch catastrophe. A former teacher and former chairman of the Dutch Jewish youth move- ment, he described two roundups of Amsterdam Jewish youth. He testified that of 700 youth sent to the Mauthausen Camp in Austria, only one survived. • He said the Nazis themselves spread word that no one left Mauthausen alive, to frighten Jews into compliance with their regulations — the ultimate aim of which was to kill as many of them as possible. Before calling Melkman to the witness stand, Deputy Attorney • General Gavriel Bach introduced documents dealing with the Holland debacle. One of them was a letter from the German Foreign Ministry to Gestapo Chief Heinrich Mueller which described the intervention of Sweden concerning 500 Dutch Jews who were sent to Germany and 400 of whom were slaughtered in one day. The Swedish minister asked permission to visit the German camp, kit his request was rejected. The Foreign Ministry letter suggested that Dutch Jews should not be sent to Germany so that Sweden — which was then protecting Dutch interests in Germany—would have no authority to intervene. Melkman told of a Jew named Edelstein who was sent by the Germans from Prague to advise Dutch JeWs on how to organize a Jewish community and how to cooperate with the German overlords. The witness said that Edelstein (Continued on Page 32) Germany...a land committed against Nazism but unable to uproot Nazis , By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ COLOGNE, Germany—From the moment the trial of AdOl f Eichmann commenced in Jerusalem, armed guards were posted o n 24-hour duty at the Roonstrasse Synagogue which was rebuilt an d re-dedicated here in 1959, in the presence of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of the Federal Republic of Germany, who delivered the principal address at that ceremony. The posting of guards was not 'done at the request of the synagogue, but at the insistence of the Federal authorities, who are determined to prevent any repercussions emanating from dormant Nazi sources, as a result of the Eichmann trial. This act in some degree demonstrates West Germany's post-wa r attitude on the question of. Nazism in•its relation to the small number • of remaining Jews in Germany and the country's friendly relation s with. Israel. But it has an even deeper relation to Germany's concern over worldwide reactions against Germany and Germans • during the Eichmann trial. At the Beth Ha-Am in Jerusalem, the able German correspond ents- virtually squirmed, upon hearing the accounts of the Nazi atrocities. Gradually they fitted into the scheme of things in the press room attached to the Jerusalem court room—realizing that fingers of guilt were not directed at them, and that they were part of a serious reportorial staff. But there was squirming also in West Germany. Only in East Germany was the trial being utilized as .an attack on Nazism and Fascism, and as part of the East German campaign to continue to . link the Adenauer government with the Nazis. As the trial progressed, West German leaders adopted'ari tude of realism. "We want the truth to be known and we want questions asked," - • a high government official told this correspondent. "We want ques- tions asked. We are anxious that children should ask their parents what really had happened. It should help our 'campaign of educa- tion among the youth—to present the facts to them, to instruct them against the policies of the Third . Reich, to atone for the crime in which we share the guilt. More than one prominent government official made much of the fact that the televising of the Eichmann court scenes, that the ,reporting of evidence and the exposing of the bestialities must cause a new sense of revulsion against the Nazis. Yet, there is another side to the story. A prominent German- Jewish journalist, Wilhelm Unger, member of the editorial staff of the Kolner Staatsanzeiger, an organizer of Germania _Judaica—Der Kolner Bibliothek .zur Beschichte der Deutschen Judentums (the Cologne Library for the spread of knowledge about the history of German Jewry)—related sad experiences. He told of having been at a resort where he, together with others, watched an Eichmann TV program. He reports that there were several derogatory comments, that some said the charges at the trial were untrue, and others sneered and ridiculed. The most saddening part of Unger's report was that all of the viewers of the Eichmann TV program walked out and he was left alone to watch • the finish of it. It is such an experience that causes one to wonder whether the West - German government is meeting with any sort of success in its genuinely sincere attempts to denazify the land. Zvi Brosh, head of the information bureau of the Israel Mission in Cologne, stated that, on the eve of the commencement of the Eichmann trial, there was serious apprehension over the possible effects of the trial upon Germans and the reactions also in Israel. He said there was a sense of relief over "the respect for law" that emerged. He said there was fear.over an emergence of dangers within Israel in regard to the country's relations with Germany, and he evinced satisfaction over the healthy attitude that is being displayed. "The Germany of 25 years ago is not the Germany of today," Brosh declared. "This is especially reflected in the press, where there is honest reporting of developments in Israel and of the Eichmann trial." Brosh hastened to declare that "children are not to blame for .What happened under Hitler," that "children are trying hard to get over;;*:_sa,d huidle _created by Nazism." He expressed confidence in the PraZtit.areffoists of educators and churchmen to explain the guilt inherent in the Nazi crime and to atone for it. "German youth groups are trying to understand the historical events, but there are small groups of Nazis who can not evade respon- sibility for adverse actions,'.' Brosh said. But there are many who adopt a less optimistic attitude, and not a single German official has tried to deny that there still are Nazis in Germany. It becomes clear that there is no official Nazism in Germany. Anything akin to it has become a punishable crime. But there are Nazis, and many former Nazi gauleoter are as free as the members of the government who are committed to a policy of uprooting every vestige of Nazism, wherever and whenever it may raise its ugly head.