Ex-SS Colonel Gets 10 Life Terms • • Admits Guilt Without Reservation (From JTA News Services to The Jewish News) Nazi trials moved on relentlessly throughout Germany and Austria this week, with defendants admitting to atrocities and punishments being meted out to others who have been convicted. In Essen, Germany, Alfred had interviewed at least 200 SS Rapp, formerly a colonel in officers and other Nazis charged Hitler's SS, who has been on with mass murder. He testified that, in most in- trial here for the murder of at least 10,000 Jews during stances, a Nazi refusing to take World War II, was sentenced part in mass murder would be here Tuesday to 10 terms of sent to the front but not punished in any other manner. life imprisonment. `The only reason so many others It was believed to be the most severe prison sentence, short of did not ask for duty at the front," death, ever meted out to a con- he said, "was because, if they shot at the front, someone would shoot victed Nazi criminal. back; but; when they shot down Rapp had been charged with helpless men, women and children, supervision of 10 mass killings of the only response was the moan- Jews in 1942 at Klinzy, in the ing of the dying." Soviet Union. He had told the In Graz, Austria, Friedrich court he would not plead innocent, Lex, the wartime Nazi chief in declaring that "what happened was Tarnopol in occupied Poland, so terrible that I cannot and will was sentenced to 15 years' im- not ask for mercy." prisonment on w a r crimes Rapp, 66, admitted his guilt charges. Lex had been found without reservation, a rare de- guilty in connection with the velopment in Nazi war crimes murder of thousands of Jewish trials. victims in Tarnopol. Most of the former Nazis who Three Israeli witnesses, sur- have been tried in West Germany vivors of the Nazi period in the have denied the charges against Tarnopol district in occupied Po- them, or tried to shift responsibil- land, testified that Lex personal- ity to their superiors. Rapp also ly killed many victims. testified he had never pleaded Aburaham Ochs, 74, Tel Aviv, obedience to orders as an excuse testified that Lex ordered in 1942 for his actions, and that he had a march in a "Children and Aged expressed his readiness to take Action" in which the Nazis assem- responsibility for them. bled several hundred Jews who af- He admitted he had taken part terwards were shot in the nearby in the execution of mental defec- Janovska woods. He also gave a tives at Trubtchevsk, and in one detailed description of how Lex execution of Jews which, he said, personally shot three Jews. had been an overwhelming shock Barbara Spinner, 41, also of Tel He said that since the war and Aviv, testified that on Aug. 31, during four years of pre-trial de- 1942, her mother, grandmother and tention, he had time for reflection brother were shot by the Nazis. on his wartime activities. Pointing at Lex, she said, "This is At Frankfurt, Pennsylvania the hangman of my family." Supreme Court Justice Michael Dr. Bernhard Reichenbach, chief A. Mussmano, who was one of of the Naharya hospital, testifield- the American prosecutors during that Lex shot Marcus Bernhard, 20, the Nuremberg war crimes trials, on the street. To all charges, Lex told the court trying 22 Ausch- replied that he had never shot a witz concentration camp person- single person. nel, that members of Hitler's SS At Dusseldorf, a survivor of could have refused to participate the Treblinka death camp col- in the mass murders of Jews if lapsed while testifying at a they really wanted to do so. Nazi war crimes trial that he Judge Mussmano based his as- had been forced to throw his sertion on facts he had accum- infant sister into a trench filled ulated after World War II as a with burning bodies. prosecutor and as an official who Joseph Waller, 37, now a mummsonnamemmismumenom Brooklyn interior decorator, sobbed that "God saw it all, why didn't He do anything." He suffered a GRACE YOUR heart attack and doctors in the FESTIVE TABLE courtroom said he had to have rest and quiet after the "strain" of his WITH testimony. He was witness in the trial of gtom c 7 ad 10 former Nazi personnel of the camp charged with killing nearly 700,000 Jews in the camp during the war. The witness testified that as a ez only Aand imodu,th and tottizd boy of 12, he had been put on a In garns.ct cRisi;ort-iz-_gion work detail by the camp's crema- A LARGE atoria. He said "they made me throw two girls into a trench where VARIETY OF bodies were burning. Then—dear WINES God — my eight-month-old sister," and he said, sobbing softly before he collapsed. CHAMPAGNES At Cologne. Dr. Hans Globke, TO SUIT who served as state secretary to EVERY TASTE former Chancellor Konrad Ade- nauer, testified at a Nazi war crimes trial here that nothing CONCORD and could have been done against the MALAGA also in I\Tzi murderers of Jews during the GALLONS AND HALF GALLONS Hitler regime. 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He was a rank- ing official of the Nazi interior ministry. * * * German Catholic Organ Identifies Nazi in Hiding MUNICH (JTA)—A spokesman for the Catholic Munich diocese as- serted that a former Nazi official accused of ordering the murder of 30,000 Jews was living as "a re- spected businessman" in West Ger- many. The Bavarian Catholic Action magazine, "The Living Cell." identi- fied the man as Franz Hofer and said he was living in Mulheim in the Ruhr district. The magazine said that Hofer was named the Nazi commander for the Inns- bruck area and became known as "Hitler's most faithful follower." He escaped from American forces who had detained him at the former Dachau death camp. He was sentenced later by a German court to 10 years at hard labor, escaped and managed to hide himself un- til 1953 under the name of Franz Leitner. * * * front of the university, protesting what they called his "anti-Semitic and-democratic" lectures. P o li c e guarded him when he left the cam- pus. The professor claimed he quit the Nazi Party in 1943, and told his class that he thought it was time every former Nazi should ad- mit his past. The 150 students ap- plauded his admission. Borodajkewicz, professor of in- ternational trade, made the state- ment after press reports were pub- lished that he was still spreading VIENNA (JTA) — The Austrian Jewish community, joined by the Austrian Resistance Movement and Catholic and Socialist organiza- tions requested the government here to immediately order the dis- charge of Prof. Taras Borodajke- wicz, a history teacher at the Uni- versity of Vienna, who had admit- ted in one of his classes that he had been a member . of the SS, the Hitlerite elite unit, during World War II. Minister of the Interior Czettel ordered an investigation to deter- mine whether the professor is en- gaged in neo-Nazi activity. Last weekend, students demonstrated against Prof. Borodajkewicz in V AcAL14." 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