BONN, (JTA) — Four former Nazis received prison terms
this week for participation in the Nazi genocide of European
Jews while plans were pushed for one of the largest war crimes
trials to date in West Germany.
Franz Hoffman, a former detention chief at the- Dachau
murder camp, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the - murder
of two Jews in 1938.
The Karlsruhe jury court convicted three former Einstaz
Commando leaders of complicity in the murder of some 1,000
Jewish men, women and children in the Soviet Union during
the 1941-1943 period. They were sentenced immediately.
Erich Erlinger, a leader in Hitler's SS Elite Guard, was
sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for participation in the
murder of 100 Jews. Former SS Lt. Reinhold Bruennert and
former Captain Hins Schuhmacher, two of Erlinger's aides,
each received four years imprisonment.
Schuhmacher reportedly was an official of the West German
Government a few years ago, serving as head of a Saarland office.
Robert Mulka, 66, former SS colonel and the assistant to
Auschwitz commander Rudolph Hoess, was released on bail
following his re-arrest on charges of suspicion of murder.
Mulka was arrested in November, 1960, on charges of
supplying trucks which transported victims from the Auschwitz
railroad station to the gas chambers. He was released but again
arrested on May 25 this year on orders of the Frankfurt Super
District Court.
"The most encompassing Nazi crimes trial in W
er-
many" will open at the end of 1962 when 26 f
er SS
d, Heinz
officials of the Auschwitz murder camp will be
Wolf, Frankfurt State Attorney, announced this
ek.
inary legal
He said that he expected to complete pr
investigations against the 26 ex-Nazis next Marc or April.
Javits Criticizes U.S. Opp ition
to Mid-East Peace Resolutio
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Sen.
Jacob Javits, New York Repub-
lican, . has criticized the U.S.
for `:failure to espouse the basic
demand for direct peace negoti-
ations in the Near East between
Israel and the Arab states, as
urged by the 16-nation resolu-
tion of African and Latin Amer-
ican nations and the Nether-
lands."
Speaking at the annual dinner
here of the American Technion
Society, Javits said that the
measure failed in the UN Gen-
eral Assembly's Special Politi-
cal Committee when the U.S.
opposed it. He said the opposi-
tion was "difficult to under-
stand."
Javits also commented on
his recent trip to the Soviet
Union. He said he found "a
de term i n e d governmental
policy against allowing Soviet
Jews who wish to do so from
migrating to Israel."
He said that the trials of Jew-
ish religious lay leaders in
Moscow and Leningrad were
"widely interpreted as a
ing to Jews in the Soviet Union
against any idea of emigration
to Israel.
Morocco Jews
Harassed in
Emigration
Acting Head of Haifa Technion Retires
HAIFA, (JTA) — Pr of. and headed the planning section
Yohanan Ratner, acting presi- of the Israel Defense Forces
dent of Technion-Israel Insti- during the War . of Liberation
in 1948-49.
tute of Technology and dean of
In the latter year he served
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the institute's faculty of archi- also as military attache in Is-
sixth Jew, Sion Elkoubi, had tecture and town
bassy at Moscow.
been arrested earlier on similar tired aft
charges, and is still in jail pend- at
ing trial. The five arrested wer
70 last July.
identified as Toubly, Berkik .
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position in Africa and the
Middle East. That concern re-
portedly was stirred by the re-
cent expulsion of Soviet Am-
bassador Daniel Solod from
Guinea and the apparently im-
proved relations between Ghana
and the West.
LONDON, (JTA)—Gamal Ab-
del Nasser, president of the
United Arab Republic, has told
his followers that he will build
his nations' armed strength "to
meet Zionist and Imperialist
threats," according. to Egyptian
dispatches received here.
Addressing a rally at Port Said,
in celebration of the withdrawal
of British and French forces fol-
lowing the Suez Canal action in
1956, Nasser said he will add
three divisons to his army, as
well as a "well-armed national
guard," to enable him "to break
the head of anybody who may ap-
proach us."
He implied, however, that he
does not intend to attack Israel
at this time, stating that those
who were urging him to engage
in war against Israel or in any
other kind of military operation
were doing so "in order to stab
us in the back." He declared
Arabs could not wage war against
Israel until other Arab nations
"rid themselves of reactionary
fifth columns."
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West Germany Sentences 4 Nazis;
Auschwitz Trial Expected in 1962