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Organized Plot Is Suspected
in Escape of Nazi Convicted
for War Murders of Jews
Is there an organized plot to assist Nazi war criminals
and to aid them in their escape from justice?
This question is now being posed in many quarters, since
the escape from a Brunswick jail last week of SS Lt. Hans
Walter Zech-Nenntwich.
It has been established that the escaped Nazi was aided
by one of the prison guards, and it is believed that the pro-
Nazi movement to aid the crimi-
nals and those on trial for mass
The defendant is Hermann
murders of Jews is being organ- Blache, 63, now a steelworker.
ized on a large scale.
who is charged with the killing of
The Brunswick Public Prose-
6,100 Jews as Gestapo head of the
cutor's office offered a $2,500 Tarnow ghetto. After his collapse,
reward for information leading
Berger was stretched out on a
to the arrest of Zech-NenntWich, courtroom bench by a doctor and
who escaped from a maximum
his second wife. He recovered and
security prison fleeing to Switz-
continued his testimony.
erland. It was believed in Switz-
The Brooklyn Jew testified that
erland that Zech-Nenntwich has
the murder of his family occurred
already left that country for a
during one of the Gestapo "sweeps"
possible hideout in South Amer-
through the ghetto which later was
ica.
converted into a giant camp ringed
Police here meanwhile released with barbed wire under the con-
Werner Plaetzer, a textile buyer trol of Blache. Berger testified
from Nordhorn, who was detained that Blache personally killed in-
last weekend along with two other mates.
men on suspicion of having helped
Speaking directly to the defen-
Zech-Nenntwich to escape. The dant, the Brooklyn survivor said:
other two men, Dietrich Zeeman. "I saw you shoot women and chil-
a prison warden, and Herman Gut- dren. It was in the big evacuation
teck, a former cell mate, are still in 1943. They were dragged out of
being detained.
the wagons and you shot them."
Hesse state officials said it ap-
Blache jumped up and shouted:
peared that some kind of a Nazi "I know nothing about this. The
underground organization was in Gestapo did everything." He was
existence, aiding hunted Nazi crim- challenged by the witness' second
nials to escape justice, and that wife, Miriam, 49, another Tarnow
Zech-Nenntwich's esape might be survivor, who said: "I felt your
the latest work of the group.
brutality on my own body. When-
Elsewhere, Nazi trials contin- ever you were loose in the ghetto,
ued, with two Adolf Eichmann the Jewish watchmen would tell
aides going on trial in Bruns-
us to hide."
wick.
The Austrian High Court or-
After eight years of investiga- dered in Vienna that Franz
tions, the two principal aides fi- Murer, a former SS officer, stand
nally went on trial charged with trial again in Graz, the town in
murder, complicity in murder,
Austria where he was acquitted
criminal extortion and participa- last June on charges of murder-
tion in the deportation of 437,000 ing 17 Jews during the Nazi oc-
Hungarian Jews, about 300,000 of cupation of Vilna Lithuania.
whom were annihilated in the gas
The acquittal, which was the
ovens at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
court decision despite testimony
The accused are former SS Lt. implicating Murer in the killings,
Col. Hermann Krumey, Eichmann's caused widespread protests and of-
deputy in Hungary; and ex-SS ficial assurances that the case
Capt. Otto Hunsche, who was Eich- would be reopened.
mann's legal adviser in Budapest.
In the new ruling the High
According to the indictment, it i Court threw out one count in a
was Krumey who had played a new charge filed by the prosecutor
major role in attempting to put and ordered that Murer be tried
through the notorious "lives for for one murder of an unknown
trucks" deal whereby the Nazis Palish Jew in the Vilna Ghetto.
were to receive 10,000 military
trucks from the Allies in exchange Retiring Fails to Dull
for 1 million Jews.
Rube Goldberg Touch
As the trial got under way,
the defendants lost some skirm-
ishes resulting from arguments
by their battery of defense at-
torneys. One argument was that
the court here has no jurisdic-
tion over the case, and the coun-
sel sought a change of venue.
The court ruled against that re-
quest.
Hunsche's attorneys charged
that he had been placed in "double
jeopardy," since he had already
been tried by a denazification
court. Judge Schmidt, presiding
justice of the court, ruled that the
denazification proceedings were
different from those facing Hun-
sche in the present trial.
Sonic of West Germany's most
prominent lawyers are leading the
defense counsel lined up on behalf
of the two former Eichmann aides.
One is Dr. Hans Laternser, one of
the key defense attorneys in the
Auschwitz-Birkenau trial. Another
is Dr. Erich Schmidt - Eleichner,
who is probably the most famous
defense attorney in West Germany.
Rube Goldberg, a cartoonist
In Bochum, West Germany,
Joseph Berger, 49, of Brooklyn,
for 59 years, is in New York at
work on his new hobby, which
N.Y., collapsed at a -Nazi war
he is taking up on retirement
crimes trial here from a mild
at 81. The head he is sculpting
heart attack after describing how
bears a close resemblance to
Gestapo men shot his wife and
father to death and killed his
Soviet Premier Khrushchev.
twin daughters by smashing them
against a wall in the ghetto in
Seventeen players signed by De-
troit Tiger scouts are with other
Tarnow, Poland in 1942.
major league clubs,
10 in the
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
American League, seven in the
National.
Friday, May 1, 1964
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USSR Charged With Taking Fewer Jews
Into Universities Than in Czarist Times
NEW YORK (JTA) — A higher USSR as a means of diserimina- Jewish university enrollment of
percentage of Jewish students was tion against Jews." Highlights of 3.22 per cent. "It is obvious that
permitted to attend universities in his study included the following the proportion of Jewish students
Czarist Russia than is enrolled in findings:
currently enrolled in higher edu-
the USSR today, the American
1. While the total number of cation is substantially smaller than
Jewish Congress charged in re- day and evening students in Soviet the proportion of Jews who en-
leasing a study of Jewish partici- universities increased by 248 per joyed higher education in the
pation in Soviet higher education. cent between 1935 and 1960, the past," Prof. DeWitt commented.
The study was prepared by number of Jewish students de-
4. The proportion of Jews list-
Prof. Nicholas DeWitt of Indiana creased by 39 per cent.
ed as "scientists" in official Soviet
2. The proportion of Jews who statistics has been in a steady
University, one of the country's
leading specialists in Soviet af- had completed higher education downward trend during the past
fairs. In his report, Prof. DeWitt among all professionals declined 20 years, decreasing from 21.2 per
said that official government sta- from approximately 18-19 per cent cent in 1939 to 8.9 per cent in 1961.
tistics showed the USSR employed in 1941 to 8.2 per cent in 1960.
a quota system "as a direct dis- 3. The 8.2 per cent of univer-
A GOOD MAN TO KNOW !
criminatory device against the ad- sity graduates who are Jews con-
mission of Jews to institutions of trusts sharply with the present
higher learning in the USSR." Ap-
For Some
proximately 3.22 per cent of the
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of the
student population in Soviet uni-
during the thrift season. When a
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buys
during thrift season to Haifa re-
the study.
duction is only 10%.
on new
In an accompanying statement,
Travel by JET AIR to TEL AVIV
costs round trip $535. If desired a
Will Maslow, executive director
Pontiacs
Tour of Spain may be included,
of the American Jewish Con-
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and
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quotas imposed on Jews in 188'7
We arrange trips to Mexico. Aca-
by the Czarist Minister of Edu-
pulco and other interesting places,
and arrange Hotels in Miami Beach
cation. According to the "History
and other Floridan cities, Jamaican,
of the Jews in Russia and Pol-
Puerto Rican and other cities and
the famous GROSSINGER'S resort
and" by the Jewish historian
at GROSSINGER, in the Catskills
AT
Simon Dubnow, published in
and the famous resort Hotel CON
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Prof. DeWitt, a former member
of the Russian Research Center at
Harvard University, said in his
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'A NIGHT OF GAMES'
Israel's Railway
Hit by Slowdown
of Train Engineers
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The Israel
railway network was hit by a
slowdown by locomotive engineers
throughout the country who are
dissatisfied over their classifica-
tion in a new civil service system
which grades them as unskilled
workers.
The Tel Aviv - Haifa express
took twice its usual time to com-
plete the run between the two
cities, and trains in other parts of
the country arrived with one or
two-hour delays.
Drivers employed by the Jewish
National Fund went out on a one-
day strike in support of their de-
mands for salaries equal to gov-
ernment - employed drivers. The
two strikes were part of a gener-
ally troubled labor situation in
which nearly all of the country's
civil service workers are either
striking, have struck, or are
threatening to strike over the new
classification system.
Noted Asian Explorer
Ney Elias, a 19th century Brit-
ist Jew, was one of his country's
leading explorers on the Asian
continent. His most famous ex-
pedition was a trek along in the
middle of the winter from Peking
to St. Petersburgh.
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