(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
HANOVER.—Guenther Fuchs,
52, an SS captain under the
Nazi regime, was sentenced
here Monday to life imprison-
ment on conviction on nine
counts of murder, ten counts of
attempted murder and 15.000
counts of aiding and abetting
murder in the Lodz Ghetto dur-
ing World War IL
His co-defendant. Dr. Otto
Bradfisch, 60, who headed the
Gestapo in Lodz, was sentenced
to 13 years at hard labor for
complicity in the murder of
22,000 Jews.
Bradfisch was brought to
Hanover for trial from prison
where he was serving a sentence
of ten years imposed on him
two years ago by a Munich
court in connection with anoth-
er series of war crimes. He will
serve the Hanover sentence con-
currently with the prior one.
Guenther Fuchs had been an
official of the Lower Saxony
Ministry for Refugees until
1960. Bradfisch had been an in-
surance agent until his arrest.
The prosecution had demanded
15 years for Bradfisch.
The two former Nazis had
been charged with having ar-
ranged for the deportation of
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Jews from the Lodz Ghetto to
the Kulmhof murder camp near
Danzig. During the two-month
trial, Bradfisch repeatedly in-
sisted he had no knowledge of
the mass executions at the
Kulmhof camp. Dr. Dietrich
Goetz. the prosecutor, riddled
Bradfisch's testimony.
Dr. Goetz cited an urgent
message Bradfisch had sent ask-
ing for a mill with which to
grind up the remains of the
Kulmhof victims. The prosecu-
tor said: "If you didn't know
what ' was happening in the
camp and didn't kriow why you
ordered the mill, you really
were the wrong man for the
job." Continuing in the same
sarcastic vein, the prosecutor
told the former Gestapo Mayor
of Lodz: "Just think what would
have happened to your demand
if the partisans had started
marching on Lodz. You wouldn't
have known about that ahead of
time. You weren't very well in-
formed about your job, were
you?"
Presiding Judge Kurt Rie-
mann asked Fuchs whether it
was true that there had been
SS men who had refused to kill
Jews and had suffered no con-
sequences. Fuchs shouted: "I
knew those guys. Those were
friends of Himmler," the Ges-
tapo chief. He said that if he
had disobeyed orders, "What do
you think Himmler would have
done to me?"
Charges against Fuchs were
filed when a group of Israelis
touring West Germany spotted
him on a street in Hanover.
They reported his presence in
Hanover to officials in Tel Aviv
who in turn notified the West
German Central Agency for the
investigation of Nazi Crimes.
Attorneys for the two Nazis in-
dicated they would appeal the
verdicts.
With U.S.S.R.
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—The
State Department, speaking at
the request of the White House,
rejected a suggestion by Rep.
Leonard Farbstein, New York
Democrat, that the Soviet Union
should be asked to lift restric-
tions on matzo baking in con-
nection with the sale of Ameri-
can wheat to that country.
Robert E. Lee, Deputy As-
sistant Secretary of State, said
in a letter to Farbstein that,
"even if it were practicable- to
impose additional conditions at
the present advanced stage of
t h e commercial negotiations,
the United States Government
would oppose a consumer-use
requirement as likely to prej-
udice seriously the successful
conclusion of a transaction be-
lieved to be in the interests of
the United States."
Lee said that, "because of the
unfavorable reactions of the
Soviet authorities to any ap-
p r o a c h es which the United
States Government has made in
the past on the behalf of Soviet
Jews, it is the Department's
belief that formal United States
G o v e r n ment representations
would not be in their best in-
terests."
The Department expressed
belief that "the course of ac-
tion most likely to bring about
a change in Soviet policies
affecting the situation of So-
viet Jews lies in appeals by
private organizations and in-
dividuals to the Soviet author-
ities. Such appeals may
heighten Soviet Soviet sen-
sitivity on this subject, and
may encourage a decrease in
Soviet activity against these
unfortunate people."
A suggestion was made by the
State Department that "serious
thought might be given to a
united appeal of private organ-
ization representing worldwide
Potash production at the Dead Jewry and, if possible, other
Sea Works, Ltd., Israel, will religious groups."
exceed the 160,000 ton estimate
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TEL AVIV, (JTA) — The
to General Makleff, managing left-wing Mapam declared in
director of the company.
its official daily newspaper, Al
Hamishmar, that "the Russian
policy of forced assimilation of
the large Jewish community
cannot be tolerated." The ar-
ticles was entitled "This is our
official standpoint."
Publication followed con-
troversial statements made by
several Mapam leaders, parti-
cularly after the return from
Moscow of one of them, Jacob
Riftin, who issued a report
that the Jews were doing well
in the Soviet Union. The
statement in Al Hamishmar
directed a number of ques-
tions at such reports, asking
why Soviet Jews were de-
prived of their rights as Jews,
why they could not develop
their own culture, and why
they could not have freed-
dom of expression.
The par t y nevertheless ex-
pressed the hope that the solu-
tion to the Jewish problem
found in other Socialist coun-
tries "need not be strange to
Russia forever," and that "we
still await a change in the
Russian attitude."
London Jews Seek
Best Approach to
Soviet Jewry Issue
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire to
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11 -- THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS -- Frid ay, Nov. 22, 1963
Sentence Fuchs to Life Term U.S. Rejects Bid
for Murder of Jews in Lodz for Matzo Deal
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