Bonn Inaction on Statute Protested Here

Former Concentration Camp Inmates
Join in Demand for Law's Extension

BY CHARLOTTE HYAMS
Near-zero temperatures failed to
daunt 300 picketers-for-justice in
front of Detroit's German Con-
sulate Jan. 14.
"It was colder than this in the
concentration camps, and we had
less to wear," said one member of
the "Survivors of 1945," who joined
the quiet group protesting Bonn's
refusal to extend the statute of
limitations beyond May 8.
If the statute goes into effect, it
will be impossible to prosecute
Nazi criminals who come out of
hiding after that date. The demon-
stration, like others held simul-
taneously throughout • the country,
was set up by Detroit's Jewish
Community Council.
Scheduled for 11 a.m. to noon
Thursday, the protest was under
police vigil. There were no inci-
dents.
Large organizations affiliated
with the Council were represent-
ed in the Washington Blvd.

veterans were flanked by mem-
bers of the NAACP, the Polish
Association of Former Political
Prisoners and a number of college
students.
One marcher said she talked to
a Marygrove College teacher and
three Catholic students who came
"because it was right to come."
Survivors of 1945 (Shaarit Hap-
laytah) wore specially-made arm
bands bearing the Star of David.
Although they were blue and
white, the bands were reminiscent
of the yellow ones victims had
been forced to wear in the concen-
tration camps.
One of their members, Dr. Men-
del Ettinger, wore the striped
uniform he had worn while an
inmate at Buchenwald. He was
carrying a sign, "Mass Murder-
ers Must Not Go Free in Ger-
many After May 8."
While marchers were blowing
on their hands to keep warm, be-
ing relieved occasionally by new
troops, a delegation from the Jew-
picket line, but there were a
ish Community Council was meet-
number of non - Jewish sympa-
ing with the German consul, Dr.
thizers who joined in. With
Wolfram Hucke.
rabbis of each denomination,
Sidney Shevitz, president of the
were members of Detroit's
Council, presented a memorandum
Catholic archdiocese and the
urging action by the Bonn govern-
Detroit Council of Churches.
Community leaders and Jewish ment to extend the statute and to

Group of Detroiters protest Bonn statute of limitation on prosecution
of Nazi criminals. Dr. Mendel Ettinger (center) is in concentration{
camp uniform.

Number of Experts From Germany on
Increase in Egypt? 120 Since December

LONDON (JTA)—West German nicians from accepting assignments
scientists and technicians working in Egypt.
Forty-five experts were specially
in Egypt on advanced weapons sys-
terns for the Nasser regime, who trained in the United States, at the
left Egypt at the end of 1964 when California headquarters of Litton
their contracts expired, have been Industries, a major U.S. electronics
replaced by a larger number of firm.
Litton operates a German sub-
new German experts, it was re-
sidiary at Freiburg, southern Ger-
ported here from Cairo.
There had been reports last fall many. The 45 specialists were
that about 125 of the 500 scientists, being trained in this country in
engineers and technicians planned expectation of a contract for the
to leave Egypt at the end of 1964 Freiburg firm, which did not come
to take better-paying jobs in West through.
When they were dismissed last
Germany.
Informed sources reported that year to return to Germany, the 45
more than 120 German technicians were approached by Arab scouts.
and engineers had come to Cairo The weapons development aid
since early December, producing by West Germans has been
an actual increase in the total strongly and repeatedly assailed by
number of such West German na- the Israel government and by Jew-
tionals working on we a p o n s ish and non-Jewish groups.

projects.

Another report said that 30 of German Church Synod
German experts came
Backs Ties With Israel
as a group from Stuttgart this
month. BONN (JTA)—The Synod of
In Munich, aircraft officials the Evangelic Church of the
were reported Wednesday to Rhineland demanded that the West

the West

have confirmed that about 60 German government act to estab-
West German aircraft techni- lish diplomatic relations with
Israel.
clans arrived in Egypt recently

The stand was approved by a
to work on Nasser's rocket
large majority at a meeting of
program.
It was reported that the tech- the synod in Bad Godesburg near
nicians went to Egypt despite Bonn. The delegates said they
American efforts to prevent their took that position because of ethi-
departure. The Messerschmidt, cal and humane reasons "which
Boelkow and Siebel aircraft firms we owe to the state of Israel, and
in West Germany reportedly have we should take every opportunity
intensified efforts to prevent tech- to change the existing relations."

recall German missile scientists at
work in Egypt.
It noted that failure to extend
the statute beyond May 8, the
20th anniversary . of VE Day,
N
"can mean that Nazi
criminals
still undiscovered and unappre-
hended can escape justice."
Dr. Hucke assured the delega-
tion, including the Rev. Robert
Whittaker, vice president of the
Detroit Council of Churches, and
Rev. James Sheehan, of the arch-
bishop's commission on human re-
lations, that their protest had his
"personal sympathy." He said it
was a "misconception" that all
unprosecuted Nazis will be free
on May 9, a day after the statute
runs out. He said he would forward
the memorandum to the German
ambassador in Washington.
Others present in the consul's
office were Rabbis Benjamin Gor-
relick of Cong. Beth Aaron, Leizer
Levin, Council of Orthodox Rab-
bis, Milton Rosenbaum, Temple
Emanu-El, Leon Fram, Temple
Israel, and Charles Rosenzveig,
Survivors of 1945. John Litzky,
commander of the Jewish War Vet-
erans Department of Michigan,
and Morris Lieberman, Zionist
Council of Detroit, also stood by.
There was backing, as well, from
the Congress of Racial Equality I
(CORE), the Metropolitan Detroit
Labor Community Association,
Trade Union Leadership Council,
the State AFL - CIO, UAW, Amer-
ican Federation of State, County
and Municipal Workers. and Amal-
gamated Clothing Workers.
The Rev. James Wadsworth,
head of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People, came down to personally
take part in the protest.
Another expression of support
came in a telegram to the Jewish
Community Council's executive
director, Walter Klein, from Con-
gressman John Conyers, Jr.
"I am convinced," C o n y e r s
wrote, "that justice will be
achieved for none until it is se-
cured for all. Please express to
the Detroit Jewish community my
sincere gratitude and commenda-
tion for their continued vigilance
in the struggle for universal jus-
tice."
Although Dr. Hucke expressed
the "deep concern of many Ger-
man people," the memorandum
he received insisted that "until
the West German government
has demonstrated its clear un-
derstanding of this obligation,
and its readiness to discharge it
in these two major areas of hu-

manitarian concern, Germany's
claim to a genuine rebirth and
to a new moral posture must be
questioned.
"Accordingly, we call upon the
West German government to take
the necessary steps to extend the
statute of limitations, and to re-
call German scientists who are
participating in the development
of missiles for the United Arab
Republic."
Close to 350 affiliated organiza-
tions were listed on the back of
the Jewish Community Council
letter, which pointed out:
"The enormity of the Nazi
crimes would be magnified by fail-
ure to pursue justice, and the ces-
sation of the trials would in itself
be a crime.
"The law must not. through the
device of a statute of limitations,

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assure protection for the perpetra-
tors -of such outrages and heinous
atrocities against humanity The
use of law to protect Nazi mur-
derers is a distortion of the goals
of justice."

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