Two Ex-Nazis Granted
Immunity to Testify
at Trial in Jerusalem
0
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Im-
munity was promised by Israel
to two ex-Nazis enabling them
to come to Jerusalem to testify
as witnesses for Adolf Eich-
mann on trial here for directing
the annihilation of 6,000,000
Jews under the Nazi regime.
• Dr. Robert Servatius, Eich-
mann'-s lawyer, submitted • "the
names of .10 ex-Nazis whom he
Wanted to summon to the trial
as witnesses. • The - other ,eight
were not promised any immuni-
ty and their testimony will be
taken by courts in West Ger-
many. •
The two who can now come
to Jerusalem to testify are Dr.
Willhelm Hoetl, a former major
of the Gestapo in charge of
security matters and Walter
Huppenkothen, formerly a func-
tionary in the same office.
"There is no record of crimes
against the Jewish people by
either of these men," Prose-
cutor Gideon Hausner told the
court. "We have therefore de-
cided to grant them immunity."
"Even if they incriminate
themselves?" asked Servatius.
"Yes," replied Hausner.
From Vienna, a Jewish
Telegraphic Agency dispatch
s e , ho
reported that D
is now hea if • a school
the Austri. o
Bad Aus
see, said will • no • able
to go to rael for two months,
"for fessional reasons." He
sal t e is willing to testify
no at Hausner h • ante
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he testified at the Nuremberg
War Crimes trials.)
On Nov. 25, 1945, Hoettl had
taken the witness stand during
the Nuremberg "trials, and told
of a conversation he had had
with Eichmann in Hungary. He
testified "Eichmann had said
he was convinced the Nazis had
lost the war and.that, personal-
ly, he "had no chande." Eich-
niann•had `said, Floettl testified
at Nuremberg, that he knew he
would be regarded as one Of the
main- war criminals- "since he
has millions of Jews on his con-
science."
Hoettl testified that Eich-
man had given the number of
Jews who had perished in con-
centration camps as 4,000,000,
saying also that 2,000,000 more
Jews had been killed by "spe-
cial troops" of the Nazi regime.
Meanwhile in Duderich, W.
Germany, Eberhard von Thad-
den, the 51-year-old former
Nazi Foreign Ministry official
whose testimony will be
sought on behalf of Adolf
Eichmann, told JTA this
week that he was ready to
_ testify before West German
authorities.
"I have nothing to hide," he
said, but refused to give fur-
ther information except that he
had talked with Eichmann's
chief defense counsel, Dr. Rob
ert- Servatius, only once a
then by telephone.
Von Thadden is one of f
former Nazis whom the c
hearing the Eichmann t
agreed to accept as defense
nesses on the basis of testimo
before the West German cou
with the provision that Israe
representatives would be pres-
ent for such hearings.
. The others are Max Merten,
one-time" Nazi military governor
of Salonika, Greece; former
Nazi Major Hermann_ Krumey,
an aide of Eichmann; and Dr.
Franz Six, a Nazi officer in
occupied Russia.
Merten said in Berlin that
he could prove who gave the
orders to exterminate Jews
during the Nazi regime but
that he intended tO give the
name only during legal inter-
rogation.
He said he could not really
be considered a witness for the
defense because all that he
would be able to testify was
that—on the basis of his experi-
ence in Salonika — Eichmann
always obtained backing from
higher agencies for the meas-
ures planned against the Jews.
United Press International re-
ported that Krumey was in a
Frankfurt jail, due to go on
trial some time early in 1962
when the Frankfurt state prose-
cutor opens several trials of
Nazi war criminals, all of whom
are now in jail in Frankfurt.
In reports from Kressbroom,
Six's wife said her husband, a
former senior officer in the
Nazi secret police, was not
available for comment on the
proposal to get his testimony
because he was recovering from
a heart attack.
Name S. African Jewish
Leader Deputy Attorney
General of Transvaal
JOHANNESBURG, (JTA) —
Dr. Percy Yutar, chief profes-
sional assistant to the Attorney
General and prominent Jewish
communal leader, has been named
Deputy Attorney General of
Transvaal.
Yutar, 49, who will take up
his new post June 1, is a past
president of the Johannesburg
United Hebrew Congregation.
During his professional career,
he prosecuted many celebrated
cases including the Oppenheimer
jewel theft.
Banks Now Hire More Jews, AJC Report Declares
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Major
banking 'firms in the United
States are beginning to show a
willingness to grant equal op-
portunity to Jews seeking an
executive career in banking, ac-
cording to a study disclosed this
week at the 5th annual meeting
of the American Jewish Com-
mittee.
Delegates also were told by
Dr. John Slawson, executive
vice-president, that despite "the
prophecies of doom that have
come out of Israel and else-
where, Judaism in America will
survive and flourish."
The two-year survey in Ph
delphia of employment p
tices in major banks found
barriers against Jews pers
but that "the door is no lo
firmly shut." The study was
pilot project of surveys of m
banks throughout the Uni
States.
The survey showed that in
Philadelphia, Jews comprise. 25
percent of the college grad-
uates: In contrast, only slightly
more than one-half of one per-
cent of the officers at the six
largest banks were Jewish.
Four of these six banks had no
Jewish officers at all despite
the fact that most bank officers
are drawn from the ranks of
college graduates.
The Americ
Com-
mittee a
s • ies
tervie
wi
bank offici
coll e a university plat
t staf , and others relate
the g • neral field. Meetin
ere held with ranking office
among the six major
a number 1f the
Some o
er-
viewed ac
even
on lower In'
dle
els of
banking
ost.
might
exist to ol rd Jew
his, they
said, is f quent a product of
the fear of
mpetition. The
ankers st
ed that they con-
a minor problem
whit can be corrected. "It
should be noted, however," the
survey report commented, "that
the hiring of new perso
often takes place at this
Despite the existe
number of "negat .
types" about Je
ong some
bankers, the "
iewers were
concerned " t oi6portunities
ist for J s in banking "
this co ection, the
paints t: "It
note t t since
begun one of t
s
nks
name • its first
emb
to the board
ot
have h • d their
ew.
ecutive ainees.
The
sident of t
ederal
Reserve
k in
iladelphia,
Karl R. B.. an introduc-
tion to the 'study, declared that
the country's future economic
growth and security requires
utiliziation of the talents and
energies of "all our people, ir-
respective of race, religion, or
ethnic origin." Bopp noted that
"prejudice and outmoded atti-
tudes with regard to membe
of the Jewish faith still
and that "this remains . a
• rb-
ing problem." He ad . "What
is encouraging is
bankers
are aware of it an re address-
),
ing themselves t
Slawson in hi ddress at the
opening sessio urged the pre-
vention of cen lism in Jewis
community lif whether
national, nati
1 or lo
would also urg ' he sai c
we keep Jewis
ommun
voluntary as th
eneral
jean life is volu ry, wi
richness, variety a flourishing
progress; that we
ould con-
sider differences a
as well as similarities a
per-
mit Jews to select those organi-
zations that express their Amer-
ican Jewish interests and that
represent their particular points
of view and serve as channels to
do things the way each group
would like to have them done;
-that we not stultify by superim-
posing over-all umbrellas; that
collaboration take place on a
voluntary basis of independent
autonomous entities, that we do
not create out of Jews in Amer-
ica a separate enclave with 'one
voice,' one spokesman.' "
Pointing out that America
is often spoken of as a tri-
faith country, Slawson said:
"As a Jewish group we put
forth our claim for recogni-
tion and acceptance as one of
the three great .
America
a
assumed
all o
e a
trements of a
up in American
ciety. t often we are un-
comfo ble in this attire. Is
that of because we know
they is anot • dim ion to
Jewishnes
' 'on"
There a
religious b
er
themselves
are
identified Jew
re they
less so becaus
y are not
religious? J
nearly always
find the
yes on side of
sts and humanists in
the dialogue or debate with
the religionists."_ • -
Slawson emphasized that the
election of President Kennedy
"marked America's entry into a
post-Protestant era, distin-
guished by industrial urbanism
and by religious, racial and
ethnic pluralism." He said _that
with respect to the new Ad-
ministration, two things must
be kept in mind: the emergence
of reactionary groups as a pro-
test against a liberal administra-
tion, such as the John Birch So-
ciety, and that pluralism calls
for an increase in intergroup
contacts "and may therefore re-
sult in intergroup conflicts due
to differences in perceptions
and values."
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