High German Official
Accused of WarCrime;
4 Get Life Sentences
BONN (JTA) — Friedrich Karl
Vialon, state secretary of the West
German Ministry of Development,
has been charged with responsi-
bility for the deportation of Jews
to concentration camps under the
Nazi regime, according to docu-
ments turned over to the Bonn
authorities by the Soviet Embassy
here.
The material, comprising some
100 documents, reportedly shows
that Vialon gave orders for the
nsfer of Jews from ghettoes to
centration camps and for the
ifiscation of the valuables be-
,-aging to the victims.
There is still a case pending
against Vialon in which he was
charged several years ago with
perjury in a war crimes trial con-
cerning Jewish victims.
Earlier, sentences of life im-
prisonment at hard labor were
imposed in a Bechum court on
four former officials of a Nazi
camp in Neu-Sandz, in occupied
Galicia, convicted of mass mur-
ders of Jews.
The life terms were imposed on
Heinrich Hamann, 57, former head
of the German security police in
the Neu-Sandz camp, who was
found guilty on 77 counts of mass
murder; Johann Bornholt, 62,
found guilty 'on 10 counts; Joseph
Runehoff, found guilty on one
count and 18 further counts of
participation in mass murder; and
Bruno Daunack, 63, convicted on
two counts and one count of- par-
ticipation.
Several other former officials re-
ceived lesser sentences, all at hard
labor, after the 71-day trial at
which 100 witnesses, most of them
Jewish survivors of the occupation,
came from the United States, Can-
ada, Austria and Israel to testify.
Judge Alter Heide, president of
the court, declared in imposing
sentences, that each defendant had
blamed other Nazis for his actions.
He said that no political consider-
ation had been involved, only the
issue of the .guilt of the defend-
ants.
He also said that the crimes of
which they had been convicted
were so horrible that no normal
person could possibly understand
how they could •have occurred. He
added that the German people
must realize what awful atrocities
had been perpetrated and must
never allow such things to happen
again. He emphasized that the trial
should serve as a warning to those
who were, at the present time,
burning synagogues and destroy-
ing Jewish cemeteries.
Five of the seven former Nazi
officers who were sentenced to
prison terms last week for their
roles in the slaughter of Polish
Jews in Tarnopol during the
Hitler era, Tuesday filed appeals
in the West German High Court
for revision of their sentences.
Those appealing their prison
tences were: Paul Rabel, 60,
Hermann Mueller, 57, who
given life terms; Walter
bor, 60, who was given a 10-
year sentence; Gunter Winkler,
49, who was given five years; and
Thomas Hasenberg, 57, who was
given 3 1/2 years. The prosecution
has not asked for any revision of
sentences in the case.
The Central Office for the Prose-.
cution- of Nazi War Criminals in
Ludwigsburg is currently working
on an additional 324 preliminary
investigations in war crimes cases,
it was announced. Since starting
work on Dec. 1, 1958, the central
office has processed 1,033 such
preliminary investigations.
Of
these, 309 cases were transmitted
to state prosecutors for trial.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, July 29, 1966 5
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Militant Negroes Lose Jewish Support
NEW YORK (JTA) — Northern
liberals, among whom there are
many Jews, have been reducing
their financial contributions to the
more militant civil rights organ-
izations sharply, the New York
Times reported here Monday. -
A significant role in this cut-
back, the Times stated, as a result
of a two-week long survey, was the
fact that some of the more ex-
tremist Negro civil rights groups
have been accused of anti-Semitism
and "black racism."
Among the civil rights groups
whose income from northern
liberals has declined recently, the
Times reported, are the Congress
of Racial Equality, the Student
Non-violent Coordinating Commit-
tee and the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, led by the
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lincoln Lynch, associate na-
tional director of CORE, was
quoted by the Times as saying
that contributions to his organ-
ization dropped "significantly"
aftei an official of the CORE
chapter in Mount Vernon, N.Y.
made a violently anti-Semitic re-
mark publicly last February.
In the Mount Vernon case, Clif-
ford A. Brown, the educational di-
rector of the local CORE chapter,
had declared openly during a
dispute about local school segrega-
tion that Hitler had not killed
enough Jews.
Will Maslow, executive director
of the American Jewish Congress,
resigned from the national CO-RE
advisory board as soon as he
learned of Brown's remarks. Many
Jews felt that CORE's national
office had not acted rapidly enough
or with sufficient vigor to dis-
sociate itself from Brown's atti-
tude.
The Times said that "several
major Jewish contributors" re-
signed from the CORE advisory
board before CORE expelled Brown
and suspended the Mount Vernon
chapter.
The Times also quoted Joseph
Willen, executive vice president of
the Federation of Jewish Philan-
thropies of Greater New York, as
saying that he has "switched" his
support for the Negro causes to
the National Urban League and the
Scholarship, Education and De-
fense Fund for Racial Equality.
The federation executive was
quoted as saying that CORE had
apparently decided not to be an
interracial group any longer, "and
the opposite of that is racist."
Noting that many Jewish stores
had been attacked during rioting
by Negroes in Chicago and New
York, Willen declared: "Jews are
disturbed about what they fear is
g r owing anti-Semitism among
Negroes."
The Times noted that some Jews
are still supporting CORE or SNCC
or both, naming among them R.
Peter Strauss, owner of radio sta-
tion WMCA; Mr. and Mrs. Michael
Schwerner, parents of Michael
Schwerner, one of the three youths
murdered in Mississippi two years
ago, after participating in civil
rights activities; Victor Rabinowitz,
a New York attorney, who is a
member at large of the governing
council of the American Jewish
Congress.
But Alan Gartner, former na-
tional CORE official, now direc-
tor of the anti-poverty program
in Suffolk County, near New
York, said: "There has been
some hard thinking by white sup-
porters in the North. More and
more they see some awful prob-
lems here. This means that some
people who were willing to be
generous when it was a case of
helping Negroes clown South are
not so generous here."
James Farmer, former national
head of CORE, stated that it was
too early to say how the "block
power" will affect CORE, but
added: "My guess is that it will
affect CORE adversely until it is
explained."
The organization headed by the
Rev. Martin Luther King said that
70 per cent of its financial aid had
come from white liberals, and that
contributions had dropped from
$1,500,000 in 1965 to under $1,000,-
000 in 1966. Ivanhoe Donaldson,
director of the New York office of
SNCC, said that this group's con-
tributions are "40 to 45" per cent
less than we normally have at this
time of year."
On the other hand, the Times
noted, the non-extreme civil rights
groups are continuing to receive
Charge of Bias Lodged
-in Cottage Rentals at
Canada Resort Area
TORONTO (JTA) — An official
of the Ontario Human Rights Com-
mission said he would recommend
to the Ontario Labor Ministry pro-
secution of a lakeshore cottage.
community operator for alleged
discrimination against two Jewish
families.
A commission hearing was told
that Donald Organ and Leon Bern-
stein placed deposits for the rental
of summer cottages at Lake Mus-
koga 135 miles north of Toronto.
When the operator, Mrs. W. A.
Fletcher of Gravenhurst, learned
that the renters were Jewish, she
returned their deposits with a
claim that the cottages had already
been rented.
However, earlier evidence
showed that the cottages had
been advertised in a Toronto
newspaper as available.
Mrs. Fletcher's attorney contend-
ed before the commission that cot-
tages could not be considered
places available to the public and
therefore they were not covered
by the Ontario Human Rights law,
which bars discrimination in ren-
tals of public accommodation for
reasons of race, creed, or national
origin. The commission rejected
that argument.
The commission official, L. A.
Deziel, said he could not imagine
a more flagrant defiance of the
law and told the hearing he would
recommend prosecution of Mrs.
Fletcher in his report to the labor
ministry.
SUMMER
CLEARANCE
ON ADS
significant help from white con-
tributors.
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
was reported reaching "a new
peak" of contributions; the Urban
League reported an over-all budget
of $2,870,000; and the Fund for
Racial Equality reported contri-
butions of $231,000 for the first
10 months of the 1966 fiscal year,
compared with $175,000 for all of
fiscal 1965.
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