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to be defended on political,
economic and social fronts every
day of our life," he asserted.
"If we don't, everything we
have attained may come to
naught."
Referring to the meeting, for
the first time, of 13 heads of
Arab states to plan Israel's de-
struction. he said that in spite
of apparent Arab weaknesses
the meetings in Cairo represent
a grave danger aggravated by
the Soviet backing of the Arabs
on the Israel water project
issue. He said that the irriga-
tion plan is most vital in order
that the Negev should be made
habitable and thereby to assure
Israel's security.
"The job we do together
has not been completed and
the challenge is great," Pin-
cus said. "We are compelled
to continue efforts in behalf
of the unskilled who come to
us and whom we must inte-
grate with us, we must aid
the many old, lame and blind
—all of whom are an ongoing
burden. We must assure se-
curity for incoming immi-
grants from 67 countries—
and from a majority of them
the Jews must get out."
He described the need for
more housing and pointed out
that while it previously cost the
Jewish Agency $10,000 to settle
a family. the cost has risen to
$12,000. He said that 14,000
persons still are in the ma'ab-
arot—the inadequate immigrant
shanty towns, and that more
than 30,000 families. number-
ing seven to ten persons each,
still live in one to one-and-a-
half room apartments.
Among the major problems,
Pincus said, is to assure means
of educating the newcomers. He
deplored the lack of means to
provide the secondary educa-
tion for immigrants.
Israel. he said, bears two-
thirds of the burden of settling
escapees from persecutions and
only a third comes from Ameri-
can Jewry. He pleaded for an
increase in interest in order
that the great task in Israel
should not falter.
In his traditional closing re-
marks he delivers at such gath-
erings, Sobeloff praised the
activities of Max Fisher on the
local and national front, and his
announcement that Fisher was
selected for the 1964 Butzel
Award was greeted with acclaim.

German Youth Views the Unreality of Trial as 22 Nazis Evoke 'Pity'

By JOHN DORNBERG
real," he said, groping for the
: JTA Correspondent in Germany right words. "It's hard to ex-
(Copyright, 1964, Jewish
plain, but it's just unreal. The
Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
whole
atmosphere, the things
FRANKKFURT — Hans, 20,
blue-eyed, his blond hair ar- they're saying, the way they be-
ranged in the Caesar cut that is have, the surroundings, the cor-
the rage among German stu- diality between defense and
dents and young intellectuals, prosecution, between the judge
watched intensely from the gal- and the defendants. It's Kafka-
lery overlooking the city coun- esque in a way."
Hans was not alone in find-
cil chamber here.
From time to time, as one of ing himself hard pressed to
the attorneys defending the 22 put into the words of normal
men standing trial in the Aus- conversation the strange at-
chwitz case, began battling Dis- mosphere of the trial.
This is due to several factors.
trict Attorney Hans Grossman
or Presiding Judge Hans Hof- The makeup of the courtroom
meyer, the young Frankfurt is one of them. The 22 defend-
University student would lean ants, nine of them who are in
forward, gripping the rail of the confinement and flanked by
spectators' balcony.
blue-uniformed policemen, are
Frequently, as the defendants seated in the most comfortable
told self-pitying stories of their chairs — the foam-rubber, pad-
lives, Hans—one of 60 German ded desk chairs of Frankfurt's
students who attended this ses- city council members.
sion of Germany's biggest post-
Behind and around them are
war Nazi trial—could be seen reporters. Interspersed on other
shaking his head vehemently.
council members' seats are the
During recesses, he ambled defense attorneys. The mem-
along the corridors of the bers of the court—three judges,
Roemer, Frankfurt's city hall, six jurors, two alternate judges,
trying to get a closer glimpse five alternate jurors and four
of some of the men on trial. It prosecutors—are on the high
seemed as if he were trying to city government bench facing
etch their faces on his mem- defendants, lawyers and the
ory.
press.
It was in the Warsaw Ghetto
"Until you learn to recognize
photo and document exhibition, the faces," wrote Gerhard Mauz,
located in the Paulskirche (St. correspondent for Die Welt, one
Paul's Church), across the street of Germany's leading dailies,
from the Roemer, that this cor- "you have considerable diffi-
respondent met Hans again. He culty telling them apart from
was staring blankly at the life- spectators and other newsmen
sized portrait of two under- when everyone mingles in the
nourished ghetto children.
hallway during recesses."
"The whole thing seems un-
But the feeling of unreality

is due to other factors, as well.
"You look at those people down
there, and listen to them talk,
and they seem no different from
anyone else," said young Hans.
"They're just like my neigh-
bors or relatives. They speak
so softly and articulately.
They seem so gentle and kind.
After a while you begin to
feel sorry for them."
"Then," continues Hans, "I
glance at the charge sheets and
see what they allegedly did. It
just doesn't seem p o s s i b l e.
These men are not Eichmanns
who murdered by administrative
decree. They are men who
killed, often with their bare
hands, with injection needles,
clubs, spade handles, their jack-
boots or pistols.

"None of these men can claim
they did what they did under
threat to their own lives. Per-
haps that argument sticks for
someone who signed documents
that sent millions to the gas
chambers. But it doesn't hold
water for people who apparent-
ly took a delight in sadism and
murder."

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Nazi-Deported Italians
to Get Bonn Payments

ROME (JTA)—Plans to dis-
tribute to victims of Nazi de-
portations the $10 million West
Germany agreed to pay Italy
were advanced by promulgation
of regulations for the distribu-
tion by presidential decree.
The beneficiaries will be
Italian citizens who were de-
ported for reasons of race, anti-
N a z i activities or political
reasons. Victims of Nazi perse-
cutions in general also will be
indemnified. Claims must be
submitted to the Italian treas-
ury by July 20. An estimated
20,000 persons, of whom 7,000
are Jews, will be beneficiaries.
A special ministerial com-
mission will be named to
implement the agreement.
The commission will estab-
lish the number of months
each deportee was interned
as well as for those who died
during the deportation or
within two years after the
end of Weed War II.
A minimum of 12 months of
interment will be set for pay-
ments.
Persons already indemnified
under the West German Loss
of Freedom Law will be ex-
cluded from the new distribu-
tion. However, it was stressed
that all other claims have been
explicitly reconfirmed in the
Italian-West German treaty of
June 2, 1961.

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3-TH E DETRO IT JEWISH NEWS—Friday, January 31, 1964

High Pace Set
For '64 Drive