Former Nazi Officers Must Do About-Face

The manuscripts, papers and cor-
respondence files of Maxwell D.
Geismar, noted literary critic and
author, have been presented to the
Boston University Library, accord-
ing to Dr. G. A. Harrer, director of
ibaries at Boston University. The
collection will be housed in Boston
University's projected $5,500,000
Central Library.
Geismar, who regularly reviews
for the leading newspapers and
journals, has had a rich and varied
career. He has been a contributing
editor as well as literary editor for
"the Nation", and is presently an
associate editor of a new magazine
of literature and criticism, "Ram-
parts", and a sponsor of "Minority
of One", which is devoted to in-
ternational relations.
He has produced a distinguished
body of work covering a wide area

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Three of the I() former Nazi SS men ac-
cused of helping kill 10.000 Soviet war pris-
oners in 1941-42 are shown on trial in Cologne,
W. Germany. Alfred Klein, 52, is partially ob-

secured at left. Werner Kraemer, 51, has his
hand to his face; and Willi Woche, 50, is hiding
behind his hat.

700,000 'Quick Deaths'
Described at Treblinka
Trial; Most Polish Jews

ing the war, after he was inter-
rogated by Austrian police who did
not arrest him.
His successor is the chief de-
DUSSELDORF—(JTA)—The 10 fendant here, Kurt Franz, who was
former SS officers and guards on described by his comrades as the
trial for war crimes at the Tre- absolute ruler of the camp, who
blinka concentration camp testi- did not spare the use of the pistol
fied here that 700,000 victims, and whip.
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mostly Polish Jews, were put to
death in the camp's gas chambers Hitler Army Glorification
by 40 Germans and Austrians and
18 Ukrainian guards within a 16- to End, Austrian Vows
month period, from July 11, 1942,
VIENNA (JTA)—Interior Minis-
until Nov. 19, 1943.
ter Hans Czettel pledged he would
The court, which began hearing do all in his power to prevent the
the war crimes trial last week, glorification in Austria of the Ger-
heard an account giving the details man army Hitler created.
of the carefully planned operation,
He made the statement in
which processed the victims in an response to an appeal from the
hour and a half from their arrival Austrian resistance movement. The
by train to their entry into the movement complained that Aus-
death chambers.
tr Ian war veterans planned to cele-
The victims were met on their brate the 20th anniversary of the
arrival with a large sign which
liberation of Austria with festivi-
read: "Welcome to Treblinka," ties geared to them that, for seven
while a five-piece band played years of the Nazi occupation, they
marches. After entering the 1 had been. in Hitler's army.
beautifully landscaped grounds s *
of the camp, the victims were
Germany to Up Pensions
told to get undressed and pro-
ceed to the showers," where to Jewish Communal
the lethal gas was administered.
Workers Hurt by Nazis
The rate of slaughter was so BONN (JTA)—The West Ger-!
great in the spring of 1943 that man government announced it j
the camp personnel were unable to would raise by 8 per cent the pen 1
bury the bodies, the court was told. sions being paid to Jews who work'
Photographs presented in court ed for Jewish community institu-
showed• naked mothers with babies tions in Germany and were per-
in their arms on their way to the secuted by the Nazis. The in-
gas chambers, and acres of charred creases will be retroactive to Oct.
bones of camp victims. 1, 1964.
The first commander of the
A draft ordinance for the in-
camp, an Austrian, Franz Stangl, creases has been submitted to the!
was said by the defendants to have Bundesrat, the upper house of
escaped to South America follow- West Germany's parliment. The

000ITIES IN 3EWiSH LIFE!

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Geismar7s Papers Given to Boston U.

increase is in line with a raise in
the salaries of German civil ser- .
vants receiving compensation. The
former Jewish community em-
ployes are covered by a special
ordinance in the compensation
law for the civil servants.
In 1963, the gAernment paid
17,000,000 marks to the civil ser-
vants. It is scheduled to pay out
about 19,000,000 marks ($4 790,-
000) in 1964.

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of American literary expression
from Hawthorne and Melville to
Salinger and James Jones.
His most recent major critical
work is "Henry James and the
Jacobites (1963)," published in
England, as "Henry James and His
Cult." This book, as well as all his
others, is being brought out by th e
Italian publishing house, Mond-
adori.
According to Dr. Harrer, the
Geismar papers constitute an im-
portant research collection for
those engaged in the study of con-
temporary American literature.
The Geismar Collection is volu-
minous in bulk. Dr. Howard B.
Gotlieb, chief of special collec-
tions, noted that it contains the
manuscripts, in various states and
drafts, of all the author's books,

`Only a Couple' of Nazis
Still at Large, According
to Bonn Justice Minister articles and reviews. Also included

his works, as well as their original

editions.
Born in New York in 1909, Geis-

mar became a newspaper man
prior to his graduation from Col-
umbia College. He was a Teaching
Fellow at Harvard in 1933 , taught
at Sarah Lawrence College, and in
1943 receieved a Guggenheim Fel-
lowship.

The first U. S. presidential con-
vention to admit women delegates
was that held by the Progressive
"Bull Moose" Party at Chicago in
1912. However, a woman, Mrs. Vict-
oria Claflin Woodhull, was nomin-
ated for the presidency by the
Equal Rights Party in 1872.

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JUDGE HARRY J.

DINGEMAN, Jr.

HAIFA (JTA)—Ewald Bucher, are manuscripts of several works
West German minister of justice, which remain unpublished.
said he knows of "only a couple"
TO
The correspondence files contain
of Nazi war criminals still at large, some 10.000 items. including let-
Tuvya Friedman, director of the ters from Van Wyck Brooks, Nel-
Haifa Documentation Center for son Algren, Edmund Wilson, J. B.
EXPERIENCED
IMPARTIAL
Nazi Crimes, 'said.
Priestley, Ernest Hemingway, Max-
Judge of Common Pleas Court
He has just returned from a well Perkins, Ellen Glasgow, Jacq-
since 1947
visit to Bonn to request an exten- ues Barzun, John Howard Griffin
sion of the German statute of limi- and many other distinguished lit-
tations on war crimes which is due erary figures. Geismar has also
presented the Boston University
to expire May 8.
Library with many translations of
Friedman quoted Bucher, sayin
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several thousand Nazi war crimi-
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nals still at large, and that he was
preparing a list of > names to be
submitted to the Bonn justice
minister. He called on every sur-
vivor of the Nazis to furnish the
names of German war criminals.

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