Europe Council Urged
to Legislate Against
Incitement to Hatred
STRASBOURG (JTA) — The
Consultative Assembly of the
Council of Europe voted unani-
mously for a resolution calling on
the Council of Ministers to invite
the 18 member governments to in-
itiate effective legislation against
incitement to racial, national and
religious hatred and violence.
- The resolution also called on the
member governments to review
existing legislation in those areas
in the light of present-day cir-
cumstances. Attached to the re-
solution was a model law for use
by the member governments.
The model law would make it
an offense for an individual to
publicly call for or incite to
hatred, intolerance, discrimination
and violence against persons or
groups on the basis of color, race,
ethnic and national origin or reli-
gion. It would provide for the
prosecution and prohibition of or-
ganizations inciting racial and
_religious hatred. It would make it
an offense to u s e publicly the
_flags, badges, uniforms, slogans
and forms of salute of such organ-
izations.
Educators to Meet Feb. 13
NEW YORK—The role of the
Jewish school in developing a sense
of commitment to Jewish life and
values will be explored at the 24th
annual pedagogic conference con-
ducted by the Jewish Education
Committee of New York, Feb. 13,
at the High School of Art and
Design.
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Austrian Courtroom Audience Shouts 'Bravo'
for Two Ex-Nazis Accused of War Murders
SALZBURG—A war crimes trial DeGrelle during the German occu-
being conducted here against two pation, fled after the war and
ex-Nazis accused of murdering turned up in Vienna where he ac-
Jews in Poland in 1941 was inter- quired Austrian citizenship.
rupted Wednesday when a packed
Austrian officials rejected Bel-
courtroom audience staged a dem- gian requests for Verbelen's ex-
onstration favoring the defendants. tradition on grounds of his citizen-
The men on trial are brothers ship but eventually arrested him
Johann and Wilhelm Mauer of and tried him on charges of ter-
Stanislaw. Their defense counsel roristic acts. The Vienna court
had just told the court that "a acquitted him on grounds he was
conspiracy" had been framed "only following orders" and a
against the brothers when people wave of resentment swept through
in the audience started shouting Belgium.
"bravo."
The foreign minister said in his
The judge adjourned the session, reply that the Belgian government
but not until Dr. Hans Olscher, had taken a number of steps to
chief of the prosecution, had denied inform the Austrian government
the defense contention that the ac- of the widespread hostility both in
cusations against the Mauer the government and among the
brothers had been made "by Jews Belgian people over the verdict.
or Communists." He said the
He said that because of the
charges had been brought on the separation of powers, the Austrian
initiative of the West German government was powerless against
Central Office for the Prosecution judiciary decisions. He added he
of Nazi Criminals at Ludwigsburg, felt that severance of diplomatic
Germany.
relations would serve no purpose.
Victor Bach of New York had
In Kiel, Martin Fellenz, a for-
told the court prior to the out-
mer SS lieutenant colonel, was
break that both brothers had
sentenced last weekend to seven
participated in the liquidation of
years hard labor on a re-trial for
the Jewish Intelligence Service
war crimes committed while he
at Stanislaw. Bach had been in
was a Nazi police chief in oc-
1941 a member of the Stanislaw
cupied Krakow in Poland and
Jewish Council. He testified he
was immediately released.
had seen the men murder a key
In passing sentence, the Kiel
member of the Stanislaw Jewish court said Fellenz had spent five
intelligence group.
years in pre-trial detention and
Another witness, Mrs. Maria ordered that time deducted from
Madek, widow of a former Polish his sentence. The court then gave
resistance fighter, testified that the Fellenz a pardon for the remaind-
Nazi SS tortured people in Stanis- er of the sentence.
law in an effort to find the head-
Dr. A. Kehl, chairman of the
quarters of the local resistance court, said Fellenz was guilty of
group. She specifically identified deportation of 38,000 Jews in 1942
Wilhelm Mauer as one of the Nazis from Krakow, Tarnow and Przem-
who played a role in the torture syl, and that he was implicated in
practices. Both brothers, however, four cases involving the slaying of
denied the accusations voiced by 45,000 Jews. The Kiel prosecutor
the two witnesses.
had asked a life term for Fellenz,
In Brussels a Belgian senator 66, who was a Schleswig town of-
suggested in Parliament Tuesday ficial until his arrest.
that Belgium should sever diplo-
He had been sentenced previous-
matic relations with Austria to ex- ly to a four-year term after his
press its resentment over the ac- first trial in Flensburg on the de-
quittal last month by a Vienna portation charges. Soon after he
court of Robert Jan Verbelen, a began serving that sentence, the
former SS general, who was sen- court ordered deduction of his pre-
tenced to death in absentia by a trial detention from that sentence
Belgian military tribunal- for war and he was released. A West Ger-
crimes.
man high court ordered the re-trial
Sen. Charles Moureaux suggested in Kiel.
that action to Foreign Minister
A survivor of Nazi murder ef-'
Paul Henri-Spaak, in stressing that forts in occupied Poland testi:
verbal protests were inadequate fied at a trial of three former
and asking the foreign minister SS men in Lueneburg that one of
what further steps he intended to the defendants was being tried
take about the acquittal. The sena- without justification.
tor called the verdict an indication
Zeev Toronczyk, 49, now a resi-
of the revival of Nazism in Austria dent of Tel Aviv, gave the unique
and an insult to Belgian justice.
testimony at the trial of Paul Deg-
Verbelen, who had served as enhardt, Kurt Jericho and Otto
deputy to Rexist leader Leon Loebel, who are accused of com-
ISRAEL
1ST CLASS HOTELS
WITH BATH
plicity in the murder of Jews in
Czenstochowa in 1942 and 1943.
Although he gave deeply incrim-
inating evidence against Degen-
hardt and Jericho, the witness said
that Loebel had been "a good
man" who had "helped us Jews in
Czenstochowa" and "even helped
a Jewish woman to escape." At the
conclusion of his testimony, the
witness shook hands with Loebel.
Six Russians went on trial Mon-
day in Mineralnye Vody, a Cauca-
sian resort town, on charges of col-
laborating with Nazi occupation
forces in the wartime massacre of
more than 60,000 victims, many of
them Jews.
The six defendants were charged
with cooperating with the Nazis in
wiping out the Jewish population of
the town in September 1942. They
were accused of helping Nazis to
load Jews on trains which took
them to a factor_y where they were
shot.
One of the Russians was head of
the police in the town under the
Nazis, another served as an in-
terpreter for the occupation forces,
Tass, the Soviet news agency re-
ported.
Two former Nazi collaborators
have been sentenced to death and
two to long prison terms by the
Latvian Supreme Court for tak-
ing part in mass murders of Jews
in Nazi-occupied Riga.
Haert Ozolin and Oskar Mazulan
were sentenced to death by shoot-
ing. Julius Berzin and Alfred Za-
laties received 15-year prison terms
each. Testimony indicated that af-
ter the Nazis occupied Latvia in
1941, the four men volunteered for
service with the Nazis.
They
part in the killing of
old people and also shot 20 victims,
including women, in the Krustpils
(Jreizberg) Ghetto.
They were also proved to have
volunteered to take part in the
total destruction of the ghetto. On
one day alone, testimony indicated,
1,700 victims were murdered. The
four men were convicted by a
Soviet court after the war as ac-
complices of the Nazi occupation
forces but they concealed their
murder activities at that time.
* * *
Find Mass Grave in Soviet
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
LONDON — A mass grave of at
least 1,350 persons apparently mur-
dered during the Nazi occupation
has been found in the city of Kher-
son, Ukrainia, according to a dis-
patch received here from Moscow.
The report stated that the mass
grave had been found by workers
excavating a site for new construc-
tion.
Scientific Interpretation
of the Bible Cost $400,000
HAIFA (ZINS)—An attempt to
apply a strictly scientific commen-
tary to a passage of the Bible has
cost an American company, the
Asher Oil Corporation, the sum of
$400,000. The President of the com-
pany, Vasily Hankok, an observant
Christian, decided to explore for
oil in the area of Haifa on the
basis of chapter 18 in Kings, where
it is written that water became
ignited and burned the offering of
the profit Elijah. Mr. Hankok in-
terpreted this to mean that the
sacrifice was burnt not by water
but oil located in the depths of
the Carmel. They have been dig-
ging for the last two years and
what they have found was water.
The undertaking, however, cost
$400,000,
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