Riga Court Sentences Five Men to Death for Their War Crimes
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LONDON (JTA)—Death senten-
ces have been imposed by a Riga
court on five Latvians, three of
them in absentia, who were found
guilty of the murder of thousands
of Jews and others under Nazi
occupation during the Second
World War. The victims were from
the town of Rezneke in eastern
Latvia.
Those given the death sentence
in absentia were Boelslav Maikov-
ski, now living in Mineola, L.I.;
Harald Puntilis of Willowdale,
Ont.; and Albert Eichelis of Karls-
ruhe, West Germany. Of the three
defendants present at the trial, two
were given the death penalty and
the third was sentenced to 15 years
in prison. All the accused were
former Latvian police officials.
During the trial, the prosecution
had charged that Eichelis, the
former police chief in Rezneke,
had ordered that "not one Jew
must remain alive in Reszneke"
and that all six defendants took
the initiative in carrying out that
policy and also appropriated the
possessions of the victims.
In Germany, legal authorities
are now sifting through the mas-
sive material involved in consid-
ering the appeals of the 22 SS
men convicted at this year's
Auschwitz trial which ended in
Frankfurt last summer.
It is not expected that hearings
on the appeals will be held before
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BALTIMORE (JTA)—The Dia-
mondback, the student newspaper
of the University of Maryland,
denied that any motive of anti-
Semitism was involved in a recent
incident in which an instructor in
a German class scheduled an
examination for the first day of
Rosh Hashanah.
The paper had earlier reported
that the instructor later canceled
the examination.
In an editorial commenting on
protests arising from the paper's
publication of the incident, "from
people who read allegations of
rampant anti-Semitism into our
previous editorial," the Diamond-
back announced that it had "con-
ducted an investigation of the prob-
lems of the Jewish student on this
campus" and that it had found "no
trace of anti-Semitism in any area
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others in occupied Russia.
Dr. Schuele and his supporters
have denied the charges, and Dr.
Schuele has declared he was ready
to face any investigation.
In another conference action,
Justice Minister Wolfgang Hauss-
m a n n of Baden-Wurttemberg,
chairman of the conference, ap-
pealed to all persons holding ma-
terial 4;in Nazi war criminals to
transmit it to the Ludwigsburg
office to enable it to bring more
criminals to trial. The conference
was attended by Richard Jaeger,
the new federal Justice Minister.
The High Court of the Karl-
sruhe Senate rejected last week-
end a prosecution demand for a
new trial and a stiffer sentence
for former SS General Karl
Wolff, who was sentenced in
Munich last September to 15
years' imprisonment at hard
labor for complicity in some 300
cases of waritme murder of Jews.
Gen. Wolff, a one-time adjutant
to Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himm-
ler, escaped trial during the Allied
War Crimes Trial at Nuremberg
because he had secretly negotiat-
ed the quick surrender of the Ger-
man army in Italy.
He was tried and convicted by a
German de-Nazification court and
sentenced to a four-year term. He
was freed after serving one week
and was living in a luxurious villa
near Munich when he was re-ar-
rested in 1962 on charges of com-
plicity in the murder of 300,000
Polish Jews by providing transport
University of Maryland Is Cleared
of Anti-Semitism Charge in Newspaper
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next summer. In addition to the de-
fendants' appeals against the
severity of some sentences, the
prosecution is appealing against
eight sentences which it considers
to be too lenient.
In other developments concern-
ing Nazi war criminals, an investi-
gation is now underway concern
ing wartime Nazi murderers who
are living under aliases or are re-
siding outside of West Germany.
- In the case of the latter group, ex-
tradition requests have been re-
jected in several instances by the
countries harboring the criminals.
Of the best known of these cases
is that of Dr. Josef Mengele, the
infamous Auschwitz selection doc-
tor, who is believed to be living
in Paraguay following a period of
residence in Argentina.
Another Nazi death camp phy-
sician, Dr. Heins Schumann, is at
present the health adviser to the
government of Ghana, which has
refused to extradite him.
In Bremen, a three-day con-
ference of justice ministers of
the West German states ended
Monday with a decision to sup-
port and strengthen the Central
Office for Investigation of War
Criminals in Ludwigsburg.
The justice ministers also ex-
pressed full confidence in the di-
rector of the Ludwigsburg center,
Dr. Erwin Schuele, senior attorney
general, who has been the target
of Communist charges that he was
a Nazi and was involved in Nazi
wartime mass murders of Jews and
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to ship them to the Treblinka
death camp.
After the Munich trial, the de-
fense asked for a new trial, seek-
ing Wolff's acquital. Th prosecu-
tor also filed for a new trial, de-
manding a life sentence. The High
Court found that there were no
judicial errors in the Wolff trial
and rejected the appeals for a new
trial. The effect of the ruling was
to order the lower court to imple-
ment its sentence.
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with
of this university's administration.
"Although this does not mean
that there are no anti-Semites on
the campus," the 'editorial de-
clared, "we feel confident that the
administration and faculty are as
free from bigotry as is possible in
a liberal institution of this size."
Referring to the incident in-
volving the German instructor,
the editorial said that it was a
mixup "subject to misunder-
standing" and added: "We are
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words of both were misinter-
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Rabbi Ben Zion Rosenthal
The paper cited the university and two steady Mashgichim
administration policy which pro-
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vides that all absences for religious
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In another statement, Rabbi.
Meyer Greenberg, Hillel director
at the - university, said that the
original report on the incident giv-
ing rise to charges of anti-Semitism
was due to "a misunderstanding by
the editorial writer" of the Dia-
mondback.
Noting that he had also investi-
gated the incident, Rabbi Green-
berg said that Hillel had "found
the administration generally un-
derstanding of the rights and needs
of religious groups and coopera-
tive in the solution of problem
situations. "University policy is
very clear," he declared. "Jewish
students are permitted free exer-
cise of their religion and are given
excused absences for all Jewish
holidays."
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