Austria Investigates Rajakovic, Aide
to Eichmann Charged With Genocide;
Italy Says Ex-Nazi Is Communist Spy
nich authorities should be pun-
ished for "negligerice" in per-
mitting the former SS officer to
remain in Munich for several
days without detection and to
find his way into Austria at his
convenience.
• ifchigan is probably the only
state-ever to have organized as
a state before being admitted
to the Union, having at the
same time a duly elected state
governor and a federal terri-
torial governor.
offices in this city, Venice
VIENNA (JTA) — Investi- from Austria.
Rajakovic, a wartime aide to and Trieste. Italian security
gation was started here into
the case of former SS officer the late Adolf Eichmann, con- officers have found in the
Erich Rajakovic, former aide ducted a highly profitable im- Rajakovic files some docu-
to the late Adolf Eichmann, port-export business with head- ments which seem to be semi-
who is accused of participation quarters Milan. He left Milan secret communications be-
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in the mass murder of about in a hurry just as one of the tween the ex-Nazi and cer-
110,000 Jews, transported un- leading newspapers in that city tain Communist countries.
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der his jurisdiction from The was about to expose him as an
BONN, (JTA) — The Social
Netherlands to the gas cham- Eichmann henchman. It was
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known that his firm had many Democratic party termed the
bers in the East.
commercial
dealings
with
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disappearance of Erich Raja-
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A schedule of interrogations
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A search of his main office in Munich last week, as "a
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trate Forstner, the judicial
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officer in charge of the probe. here, police said, has led to shame."
Party leaders said that Mu-
further scrutiny of his branch
Three magistrates are on
their way here from Holland
to aid the investigation. The
Dutch government, which had
previously indicated it might
ask for the ex-Nazi's extra-
dition, has now decided not
to seek to have him returned
to Holland, but instead to
aid the full probe under way
here. Authorities in Munich
have also indicated their will-
ingness to aid the Austrian
ON BEHALF OF ISRAEL BONDS
investigation with documen-
tary material concerning his
wartime activities.
One witness interviewed by
the magistrate is a woman who
had been an inmate at the Rav-
ensbruck concentration camp.
The woman came here to testi-
fy from Milan, where she lives
now. Rajakovic was living in
Milan until two weeks ago,
when he fled in the face of a
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newspaper expose which reveal-
ed his Nazi past. The woman
told Magistrate Forstner that
Rajakovic had engaged in "se-
lection" of Jews slated for de-
Dancing to the music of ERIC ROSENOW
portation, separating the
"healthy" from the "ill." Those
and his Orchestra
he deemed sick - were destined
for the gas chambers.
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Another phase of the probe
concerns a detailed check of
Rajakovic's activities between
1938 and 1945. Rajokovic still
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insists that he was not guilty
of participating in mass-murder
deportations. He claims he par-
ticipated only in plans for send-
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ing Jews to Madagascar. The
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Centennial, Downtown-Fox, Frenkel, Handler-East
plan to settle Jews in Madagas-
HY CRYSTAL
MORT FREEMAN Side, Herz!, Jacobson, Livonia, Morgenthau, Motor
car had been acknowledged by
Executive director
the late Adolf Eichmann as one
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and
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of his ideas.
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However, the documentary
proof of Rajakovic's direct
Both at GEMILUTH CHASSODIM SOCIAL HALL, Greenfield at Vassar
involvement in the transpor-
tation of Jews to death camps
was received here from the
Jewish Documentation Center
in Paris. One of the docu-
ments is a copy of a tele-
gram sent by Rajakovic from
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his headquarters at The
Hague, on Aug. 19, 1942. The
telegram, addressed to SS
Guest Star
leaders in Berlin, Paris and
Brussels read as follows:
"Re: Deportation of Jews
from Belgium. Considering the
present situation, we cannot ex-
. pect the denaturalization regu-
lations for Jews of Dutch na-
tionality will become effective
in the near future. The evacua-
tion has been extended also to
Jews of Dutch citizenship, and
will be continued unless other
obstacles develop, although the
order is not yet effective. There-
fore, we here would not hesi-
tate (to advise) that also Jews
of Dutch nationality in the dis-
trict under your command
should also be evacuated."
JOEY ADAMS
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(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
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to The Jewish News)
ROME.—Erich Rajakovic, the
former SS officer who is under
TUESDAY, APRIL 30 — 8:30 P.M.
EMIL COHEN
arrest and is being investigated
in Vienna on charges of having
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American-Jewish Comedian
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been the key man in the depor-
tation of 110,000 Jews from Hol-
and Co-Sponsored by Bloch, Brandeis,
land to the Nazi gas chambers,
MONDAY, MAY 20 — 8:30 P.M.
is now suspected of espionage
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in this country on behalf of
some Iron Curtain countries, the
Both at MORRIS L. SCHAVER AUDITORIUM, Labor Zionist Institute
Italian Federal Police announc-
ed Tuesday.
If the charges prove correct,
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authorities said Italy will de-
mand Rajakovic's extradition
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HARRY ABRAM
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