Friday, February 14, 1964—T HE DETRO IT JEWISH NEWS-40
Carnival Interrupts Trial Jewish, Catholic Leaders in Rome Discuss Actions
of Pope Pius in Regard to Nazi Genocide of Jews
of 22 Auschwitz Nazis;
motivations of the Pope's at- 1940 asked the Italian govern-
ment to intervene with Nazi
"Defense Attorney Accused ROME—The role of the late titude.
Germany on behalf of priests
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
He cited the opposition of the
FRANKFURT (JTA) — The 1SS adjutants at Auschwitz, and Pope Pius XII in regard to the Vatican to Nazism and referred who had been sent to the Mau-
Emil
Bednarek,
a
former
Ausch-
Nazi
genocide
of
European
trial here of the 22 ex-Nazis ac-
to Pope Pius' encyclical letter thausen Concentration Camp,
cused of participation in the witz trustee, in the Frankfurt Jewry, with particular reference "Mit Brennender Sorge," which an effort which did not succeed.
to Rolf Hochhut's play "The
murder of three to four million trial.
Msgr. Givovanetti said the Nazi
Prof. Toscana also quoted
Bednarek, 56, justified some Deputy" was the subject of a Foreign Office charged was
Jews in Auschwitz and the Bir-
Hitler's instructions to Weiz-
attended
round-table
conference
kenau gas ovens during World of his brutal actions, when he
meant to rouse the world against
aeker, Germany's representa-
War II was suspended until testified under oath, by the by Jewish community and Cath- Nazi Germany.
tive at the Vatican, to the ef-
claim that "they were bad olic lay organization leaders
Monday.
Msgr. Giovanetti also as-
fect that "In view of the
here.
The court ordered the suspen- people — after all, they stole
known anti-National Socialist
The panelists were Msgr. Al- serted that the Allied broad-
sion because nearly all govern- bread and shoes."
attitude of Cardinal Pacelli,
berto Giovanetti of the Vatican casting services throughout
ment and business activities are
The only one of the 22 de-
the world radioed extensively
give him my congratulations,
slowed or halted at this time fendants who had not been a State Secretariat; Prof. Mario comments of the Vatican
since this cannot be avoided,
while the Germans celebrate the member of either the SS or the Toscana, research and documen- Radio during the war, some-
this should not be too
but
tation
director
of
the
Italian
annual carnival, a marathon Gestapo, he was himself an in-
thing he added, which was
warm." The occasion was the
gala event similar to the Mardi mate at Auschwitz for five years, Foreign Office Ministry; and never done by Nazi Germany.
Cardinal's ascension to the
Raphael Cantoni of the World
Gras observed in New Orleans.
serving as a trustee throughout Jewish Congress, a former pres- He also cited previously men-
papacy.
When the court reconvenes, the period 1940-45.
tioned indications of the
ident
of
the
Union
of
Italian
Cantoni cited efforts b y
the trial will enter its ninth . Ethnically a German, Bed-
Anti-Nazi attitude of the late
Jewish Communities.
Catholic clergy to save Jews
week. The proceedings are
pontiff including a letter to
I narek had served awhile in the
"The Deputy," the theme
during the Nazi occupation of
expected to last several Polish Army, had crossed over
the London Tablet by Cardinal Italy. He said this was done on
of which is that the late pot-
months longer.
Montini,
now
Pope
Paul
VI.
to the German side and was iff failed to speak out against
instructions of Pope Pius to
Still unheard
are about
Prof. Toscana suggested that
witnesses
summoned
by 250
the arrested four years ago as a
the Nazi genocide, has provok-
`Help. hide, save."
suspected Nazi when some for
ed controversy in all cities the Vatican State Secretariat
prosecution from the United i mer Polish inmates of Ausch-
He said the nature of the as-
should
complete
the
documenta-
where it has been shown.
States, Israel and other total- witZ recognized him in Bavaria,
Msgr. Giovanetti, author of a tion of its archives because he sistance given by the church
tries. Many of these are sur- where he ran a small cafe.
recent study, "The Vatican and wanted to show with such doc- showed clearly that the activi-
vivors of the Auschwitz concen-
ties were not sporadic humanit-
He insisted he had never, as World War," said that no one de- uments that Italy's Pro-Jewish
tration camp, and are expected
arian actions. He concluded with
stand
during
the
war
was
partly
charged, hit Jews who had re- nied the right to criticize a hist-
to testify about specific acts of fused to go peacefully into oric personality such as Pope due to the influence of the an appeal to work in unity for
progress without regard to reli-
murder and torture by some of i
Pius. However, he asserted "The Vatican.
the gas chambers.
He cited documents to show gious differences. He was warm-
the defendants.
Deputy"
was
a
"Libel"
because
He said he had never given
At Bonn, one of the attorneys
it did not describe any political that the Vatican in November ly applauded by the audience.
defending the former Auschwitz any prisoners the "cold shower
guards was accused of having Itreatment," which involved dous-
Hebrew Corner
himself helped to condemn vie- ing naked prisoners with water
tints to Nazi concentration I in midwinter, then letting them
freeze to death outdoors.
cam p s .
Between Kfar-Gil'adi and Tel-Hai
Dr. Herman Stolting of
He denied he had beaten pris-
there is a large statue of a lion.
Frankfurt called the charge, oners in Block Eight at Ausch-
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The at- the appeal was rejected by the It symbolizes the bravery of Yosef
Trumpeldor and his fellows, who
made by the Polish Organiza- witz, where he was "top elder," torney for Hirsh Barenblatt, court.
were killed in Tel-Hai.
tion of Nazi victims, "pure until the inmates died.
conductor of the Israel National
The five-year sentence was
In the year 1920 Tel-Hai was in
nonsense." The group asserted
The court heard over-all Opera, who was sentenced to imposed for the major charge the French area of Eretz-Yisrael. To
her
south was the Arab-Syrian area.
that Stolting persecuted many
denials from the next witness five years' imprisonment on of handing over Jews to the
The Syrians wanted to drive out
Poles and demanded severe
also, a piano builder named charges of collaborating with Nazis. Concurrent shorter terms the French from Upper Galilee. They
used to attack the travellers on the
sentences against them as a
Gerhard Neuberg, who had the Nazis and handing over were imposed for the charges roads. From time to time they would
public prosecutor under the
served for two years as a Jews for extermination, an- emanating from his position as attack, also, the Jewish settlements:
Metula, Kfar-Gil'adi and Tel-Hai.
Nazi regime.
medical corpsman run by the nounced that he will appeal chief of the Jewish police in the
In each one of these settlements
there were 34 members, then. Each
The group said that in May I SS at Auschwitz.
within the seven days against Bendzin Ghetto.
man had a rifle, one hundred and
Stolting
had
prosecuted
a
1942,
what he described as a "severe
Barenblatt, who was married fifty bullets and a few hand-gren-
• Neuberg, 54, admitted he had
defendant in Bromberg in Nazi- been
That was all.
several months ago to a young ades.
an assistant to a physician sentence."
On the Eleventh of Adar 5680
occupied Poland who eventually in one of the camp hospitals.
(1920) Arabs attacked Tel-Hai. The
The attorney's request for the opera singer, cried out "Why? place's
commanding officer was
was sentenced to death.
But he insisted he had never release of Barenblatt pending why?" when hearing the ver- Yosef Trumpeldor. During the battle
Stolting admitted he was a "selected" any of the prisoners
dict, stressing that he was ac- Trumpeldor was badly wounded.
In the evening, when they took
public prosecutor in Bromberg who had been sent to the gas
quitted on the same charges the
wounded Trumpeldor to Kfar-
from June 1941 to October 1942, ovens. That job, he said, was Mengele's Extradition
Gil'adi he said to his companions:
by a Polish court.
"These are my last mements. Tell
but insisted he had nothing to done by a doctor who came
Sought by W. Germany, The judgment of the Israeli our companions to continue to
do with political cases.
. . . "It good to die for our
every Tuesday to pick for death
court, however, noted that the stand"
To the charge that, as prose- those patients who were "too Refused by Paraguay
country."
A few moments later Trumpeldor
"cries
of
children
demand
pun-
cutor, he had demanded that an
died. Together with him. seventy
BONN (JTA) — A West Ger- ishment," indicating that Bar- more
sick."
of his companions fell in this
accused man be sent to the Mau-
enblatt's
most
outrageous
act
man
government
request
to
the
place.
thausen death camp, the attor-
Every
year, on the Eleventh of
government of Paraguay, de- was discovering the hiding place Adar, the youth goes up to Tel-Hai
ney said: "I did not even know
of
Jewish
orphans
and
handing
to give honour to the heroes.
that there was a concentration
manding the extradition of Dr.
(Translation of Hebrew column
them over to the Germans to be published
by thhe Brith Irvith Ola-
camp in Mauthausen until the
Josef Mengele, long sought for shipped to a death camp.
mith, Jerusalem).
end of the war."
VIENNA, (JTA)—The police trial in this country as the Nazi
He is defending Robert Mulka announced that Julius Garbler,
and Karl Joecker, two former a former Nazi police officer "selection" doctor at Auschwitz,
arrested on suspicion of the was rejected in a communica-
T
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murder
of a large number of tion to West Germany from Par-
BULLETIN
aguay,
on
the
grounds
that
Men-
Polish Jews during the war,
(From Special AP Dispatches)
has
committed suicide by jump- gele is not in that country.
FRANKFURT — Dr. Wer-
A government spokesman
ing
from the window of his
ner Heyde, 61, facing trial at
said, however, it has been es-
41.V t?):^"In
prison
cell
in
the
town
of
Weis
mil
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(1920)
Limburg next Tuesday as a
tablished definitely that a man
Nazi war criminal, com- in upper Austria.
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The 57-year-old leader of the calling himself Jose Mengele
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mitted suicide at Butzbach
Gestapo
department for Jewish acquired Paraguayan citizen-
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Penitentiary, the state prose-
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ship
Nov.
28,
1959.
If
Jose
and
cutor's of f i c e announced affairs in the Polish town of Josef Mengele are the same per-
Thursday. The day before, Debica had been in prison for son, it was stated, extradition
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another defendant, Friedrich a year awaiting trial. He was would be out of the question,
also
charged
with
participation
Tillman, 60, leaped or fell
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since the Paraguayan law for-
from the window of a wash- of the transport of Jews to their bids the extradition of that
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room in an eighth-floor office death in the Auschwitz murder country's citizens.
camp.
building at Cologne.
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The two ex-Nazis faced
charges of killing '70,000 of
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office chief of the euthanasia,
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(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
one of the sons of Adolf Eich- In4t0t0
or "mercy killing," program
to The Jewish News)
mann, the Gestapo colonel who
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in Berlin, and Tillman was
FRANKFURT — Dr. Fritz was tried and executed in Is-
nt-
also connected with the staff. Bauer, the Hesse state prose- rael, also told Dr. Bauer that his
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After World War H, Heyde cutor, has launched a worldwide father always spoke of Bormann
became direct or of the hunt for Martin Bormann, Hit-
M5757
ma mzI
Cologne orphan asylum.
ler's deputy, after being in- as being alive.
Der Spiegel, a West German
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formed by a former high Nazi
IL7p4 ins?
news weekly, quoted Bor.
that Bormann was alive.
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mann's mother-in-law as say-
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Dr. Bauer was informed by
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to The Jewish News)
ing that her late husband Wal-
Werner
Naumann
that
Bor-
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ter Buch had received word
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n -rlan
Wednesday, Israel's travel tax mann definitely had not been
well after the war that Bor-
killed
by
the
Russians
in
their
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was more than doubled to 320
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mann was living in hiding.
pounds ($106) on airline tickets final assault on Berlin when
Bitch was a judge under the
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and to 270 pounds ($90) on he sought to escape from Hit-
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Nazi regime.
ship tickets, plus the previous ler's underground bunker.
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The Hesse State Justice Min-
Bormann repeatedly has been
5 per cent flat rate on such
istry issued a standby warrant
reported
as
having
been
seen
in
tickets.
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The tax was reduced for Is- South American countries, but for the former chief of the Nazi
party
chancellory
in
1961
on
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raeli students and families none of the reports has ever
charges of suspicion of at-
abroad who return to Israel for been substantiated.
According to the reports here, tempted murder.
a visit.
Israel Conductor to Appeal Term
for Collaborating With the Nazis
Tel-Hai
Ex-Nazi Takes
Life in Vienna
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Worldwide Manhunt Is Launched
for Hitler Deputy, Martin Bormann
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