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November 23, 1973 - Image 11

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1973-11-23

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, Noy. 23, 1973

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Helmut Sonnenfeldt Approved

as Treasury Undersecretary

Himmler Aide
Trial Expected

HAMBURG — A man ac-
cused as being one of the
biggest "bureaucratic" kill-
ers of all time, alleged to
have supervised the murder
of at least 1,000,000 Russian
Jews and Communists during
World War II, is going to
trial some time next year.
Bruno Streckenbach, 71,
former administrative man-
ager of SS chief Heinrich
Him mler's security head-
quarters, was alleged with
others to have organized the
murder of Soviets and Jews
during the Nazi invasion of
Russia in 1941-42.
He was sentenced in 1947
to 25 years in prison by a
Soviet court, but was re-
leased after 10 years and
went to work as a clerk.
A spokesman in the Ham-
burg district attorney's of-
fice, which issued the indict-
ment, said that Streckenbach
was a "classic bureaucratic
killer." The German term
"schreibtischtaeter" literally
means desk criminal applied
to Nazi war criminals who
ordered the executions, but
never did the work them-
selves.
A total of 113 witnesses
have been asked to testify
at the trial which is expected
to run for 2 1/2 years.

Soviet trade and provide
the department with a poli-
tical link to the national
security apparatus at the
White House," the New York
Times reported.
Upon his appointment. Son-
nenfeldt quipped that he may
"be one of the more investi-
gated persons in this town"
with rightful justification.
During his 17-year term as a
State Department employe
he had been an object of
suspicion by the depart-
ment's security -officers, es-
pecially by Otto F. Otepka,
chief security evaluator.
On one occasion Otepka
and others alleged that Son-
nenfeldt had leaked classi-
fied information to the press
and to a foreign diplomat.
He was eventually cleared,
but the taint remained and
renewed charges from Otepka
HELMUT SONNENFELDT and other foriner members
been approved for the post as of the State Department held
undersecretary of the Treas- up Sonnefeldt's appointment
for five months.
..ury.
Sonnenfeldt, who fled with
Helmet Sonnenfeldt, 47-
year-old son of German-Jew- his family from Nazi Ger-
ish physician parents, joined many in 1938, joined the
the State Department in 1954 U.S. Army, where he kept
where he was assigned to his knowledge of German a
the Office of Research and secret to avoid an assign-
Analysis concerning Soviet ment there. He was shipped
to the Pacific for combat
affairs.
Classifieds Get Quick Results
duty.
He earned the reputation
In 1946 he was sent briefly
as an excellent political
analyst and was promoted to Germany and was posted
several times. In 1966 he was in the United States occupied
appointed director for Soviet zone with another returned
and Eastern . European af- native, Sgt. Henry Kissinger.
fairs, and in 1969 he joined Following the war, Sonnen-
the National Security Coun- feldt earned his bachelors
cil as a senior staff mem- masters degrees at Johns
Hopkins University.
ber
He was an innovator of
As associate of Treasury
Secretary George P. Schultz, President Nixon and Secre-
who pressed for Sonnenfeldt's tary of State Kissinger'3
appointment, he will "super- policy of detente with the
vise growing United States- Soviet Union and China.

NEW YORK—A man vir-
tually unknown to the Ameri-
can public "partly because
of his professional penchant
for secrecy" and pertly be-
cause his boss, Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger, is so
much in the limelight, has

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ADL Study Finds the Energy
Issue Solvable Minus Arab Oil

NEW YORK — Calling the
problem of American energy
needs "solvable" without
Arab oil, the Anti-Defamation
League of Bnai Brith made
public a comprhensive analy-
sis of the "energy crisis" and
announced "a nationwide
campaign to counter Arab
propaganda."
The analysis, printed as a
pamphlet, "Oil and U. S. Mid-
east Policy,' points out that
current Arab oil importation
is approximately only 4 per
cent of America's total oil
_ needs and declares that "the
U should not, need not and
not submit to Arab oil
blackmail aimed at forcing
a reversal of American sup-
port for Israel.'
"Neither Israel nor U. S.
Eastern nations has any rele-
vance to the energy crisis,"
according to Seymour Grau-
bard, national chairman of
the ADL.
In an introduction to the
pamphlet, Graubard calls for
reducing the growing energy
demands of American indus-
try and consumers to "what

Healed Through. Labor
We have been deprived of
labor (I do not say: "We_
have sinned" — for it was
not our fault that we arrived
at this situation) and we
shall be healed through
labor. Labor must become
the pivot of our aspirations
and the basis of our nationa;
structure. — A. D. Gordon,
"The Labor," 1911.

is available and practicable:"
Declaring that Americans
"shall have to demonstrate
ability to make small sacri-
fices of convenience for the
greater national interest," he
suggests "a combination of
methods" for accomplishing
U. S. self-sufficiency in en-
ergy:
• Increased use of auto-
mobiles which get at least
20 miles to the gallon instead
of 6 or 8.
• Compelling public utili-
ties and other big industrial
consumers of energy to turn
increasingly to the use of low
sulphur coal instead of oil.
• Where only high sulphur
coal is available, installing
sulphur extraction processes
now available to limit air pol-
lution.
• Rescheduling airlines to
duplication
o f
eliminate
flights.
• Increased public trans-
portation.
• Crash programs for re-
covery of oil from the Con-
tinental Shelf, for the gasifi-
cation of coal, for the extrac-
tion of oil from shale, for nu-
clear energy and for other
potential sources of energy
now only in experimental
stage.
The agency's analysis says
that although- existing energy
supplies "have been squan-
dered at a far faster rate
than necessary by national
wastefulness and failure to
conserve," American fuels
are "far from exhausted."

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