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Kiesinger May gO on Witne-S"S Stand
in War Crimes Case; Trials Continue
FRANKFURT—An assize court investigation center be dis-
here was reported Tuesday to be banded.
considering whether to call West
The NPD's demand was the par-
German Chancellor Kurt George ty's first foray in its campaign
Kiesinger as a defense witness in for votes in the Baden-Wurttem-
the trial of Adolf Beckerle, the berg elections next month. Politi-
German minister in Sofia, Bul- cal observers expect the right-
garia, during World War II, who wing party that espouses Nazi
is being tried as an accessory to ideas to win 8 per cent of the vote
the murder of more than 11,000 in the forthcoming election.
Jews,
In Geneva, however, Simon
The victime were deported from Wiesenthal, director of the Jewish
Bulgaria to the Treblinka death Documentation Center on N a z i
camp in Poland in 1943. It is the Crimes in Vienna, told a meeting
contention of Beckerle, whose trial at the Jewish Community Center
opened last November, that when that the struggle to bring Nazi war
he participated in the deportations, criminals to justice must continue
he was unaware of the fate that because it compels a guilty gen-
awaited the Jews. Dr. Kiesinger, eration to answer for its crimes
who was deputy leader of the ra- and has curbed rightist tendencies.
He also said that greater efforts
dio department of the Nazi For-
eign Ministry in charge of propa- must be made in that struggle be-
ganda and counteK-propaganda, is cause in a few years, prosecution
believed to be the only witness who of Nazi war criminals would be
can bear out the defendant's claim barred by application of the West
that the Sofia legation was not on German statute of limitations.
He expressed opposition to the
the mailing list for foreign minis-
try documents. Those documents practice of referring to the 6,000,-
kept Nazi diplomatic missions 000 Jews murdered by the Nazis,
abroad informed of the policy to rather than to the 11,000,000 civil-
annihilate the Jews. Kiesinger's ians from many European coun-
testimony has been demanded by tries whom they killed, including
Beckerle's defense counsel, but the 6,000,000 Jews. He asserted
the court is yet to act on his de- that by talking only about the
6,000,000 Jews, one reduced the
mand.
To Nuremberg, two former problem to an issue between Nazis
and Jews.
Nazi judges went on trial for man-
A Munich court Monday re-
slaughter Tuesday. The charges
jected a suit by war criminal
against Karl Josef Ferber, 66, and
Erich Rajakovich against Wies-
Heinz Hugo Hoffman, 61, stem
enthal, in which Rajakovich
from the death sentence they im-
claimed that he had been de-
posed in 1942 on a Jewish busi-
famed in certain passages of
nessman, Israel Katzenberger, who
Wiesenthal's book, "The Mur-
was accused of "rassenschande"
derers Among Us." Rajakovich
(race shame) for allegedly having
was an aide to Adolf Richmann.
relations with an "Aryan" woman.
He is wanted inVolland to face
Meanwhile, the neo-Nazi Na-
charges of mass murder in con-
tional Democratic Party repeat-
nection with his role in the de-
ed its demand Tuesday that all
portation of Dutch Jews to the
investigations of war crimes
death camps.
committed during the Nazi era
Three Czechoslovakian jurists
be discontinued forthwith and
have accepted the invitation of the
that the Ludwigsburg war crimes
Central Office for Prosecution of
Nazi Crimes to come to Germany
to testify, it was learned, The
Zionist Group Urges
jurists are expected to arrive later
this month.
Revised Aliya Policy
JERUSALEM (JTA)—A three-
day consulative assembly of the
World Zionist Organization wound
up here Feb. 27 with a majority
of the delegates supporting the
establishment of a "magshimim"
movement — groups of Zionists
who personally pledge to settle in
Israel within a given period of
time.
The question of aliya (immigra-
tion), especially from affluent
Western countries, dominated the
conference which was supposed to
prepare the ground for the World
Zionist Congress here next June.
A closely linked problem was the
absorption of new settlers. Here
too, a majority of the assembled
Zionist leaders from Israel and
abroad favored retention of this
responsibility by the Jewish Agen-
cy. A large minority, however.
called for the establishment of a
joint Jewish Agency - Israel gov-
ernment authority to take over the
function.
The conference agreed that the
furthering of Zionist education,
particularly in the diaspora, was
vital to aliya.
Aryeh L. Pincus, chairman of
the Jewish Agency, said an effort
must be made to change the at-
mosphere that surrounds Zionist
matters in Israel and to emphasize
the mutual responsibility of Zion-
ists and the government for rela-
tions between Israel and the dia-
spora, Dr. Goldmann said that the
importance of aliya notwithstand-
ing, the success of the Zionist
movement cannot be measured
solely on how many olim (immi-
grants) it brings in.
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TUNIS (ZINS) — "The Fedayin
sabotage operations in Israel are
a flop, and many members of the
gang refuse to take orders to com-
mit terror-acts," writes the pro-
Nasser newspaper, "El Huads,"
published in Beirut.
The newspaper blamed the
work of Israel's secret service as
the primary cause for the Fedayin
failure. The secret service, the
newspaper continues, is thoroughly
informed about the preparations
and movements of the marauding
bands, and many of them are cap-
tured before they can do any
harm.
"El-Huads" conceded that they
belong to the lowest class of the
Arab population, they are un-
skilled and unemployed, and hun-
dreds of them end up behind bars
in Israeli prisons.
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