Friday, Febraary 2, 1979 171 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Extend Statute of Limitations for Nazi Crimes, U.S. Jews Urge NEW YORK (JTA) — West Germany's Acting Consul General in New York, Kurt-Arthur Schwartze, conferred with two American Jewish dele- gations on the issue of the statute of limitations on the prosecution of Nazi war criminals, due to expire at the end of this year. The German official indi- cated that there is growing sentiment in Bonn for an extension of the statute and said the present concensus that the West German rliament would not grant k war criminals immunity from prosecution after the Dec. 31, 1979, deadline. A. Schwartze met with a de- _ legation from the American Section of the World Jewish 014 Congress, led by its chair- man, Jacob Katzman,. and 01! with representatives of the 26 major organizations in the Jewish Community Re- lations Council of New York. The latter group, headed by JCRC presi- dent Richard Ravitch and executive director Malcolm Hoenlein, sub- mitted a letter for trans- mission to the West Ger- 4t■ man government which said that to allow any of those responsible for I. Nazi depredations to es- cape justice would be "an unforgiveable affront to the memories of their 11 million victims, a bet- rayal of democratic prin- ciples espoused by the West German govern- on- ment and a crushing de- feat for the conscience of '• mankind." Similar views were expressed by the WJC delegation. Responding, Schwartze agreed that if the statute of limitations — the period of time during which war criminals are subject to pro- , secution— expired, it would mean closing the final chap- ter on the subject of Nazi murderers. He also ob- served that opposition to ► 4 abolition of the statute was not confined to Jews but came from members of all faiths. According to Schwartze, party discipline will be Iii waived and members of Par- liament will be free to vote on the issue according to their conscience. He quoted the vice presdent of the Bundestag (lower house) as ying the extension has "a od chance of coming ough." Schwartze also observed that the recent screening of I the "Holocaust" dramatiza- tion on West German tele- vision to record audiences was likely to have a positive I. impact on the vote. (In Bonn, the Interna- tional Auschwitz Com- mittee, an organization of survivors of the notori- ous death camp, added its voice to the growing demands to reject any deadline for the prosecu- tion of war criminals. The committee urged the government to sign a 1968 • 1. United Nations conven- tion mandating that war crimes and "crimes against humanity" be excluded from the statute of limitations.) ' In New York, five- member delegation of Yav- neh, the national religious Jewish student association, met with Schwartze, and handed him a message ad- dressed to Chancellor Hel- mut Schmidt, urging him to issue an open statement op- posing the expiration of the statute of limitations for Nazi war crimes. In Chicago, a delegation of 10 civic and communal leaders met with the West German Consul General Egon Rastor. In Los Angeles, a delega- tion of concerned Jewish and non-Jewish leaders met with Dr. Herwig Effenberg, consul general of West Germany, and formally re- quested that the Bonn gov- ernment begin its legisla- tive process to either abolish or extend the sta- tute of limitations. Following the meeting, a "rally for justice" was held at the Wiesenthal center. California Gov. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., addressed the rally. Simi- lar events were held in other major cities in the United States, Canada, Europe and Israel. Nathan M. Goldberg, na- tional commander of the Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A., has called on all veterans of World War II to petition the West German government to eliminate that country's statute of limitations for Nazi war crimes. Meanwhile, the much- debated problem of the sta- tute of limitation for Nazi murder is fully analyzed in the latest research report of the Institute of Jewish Af7 fairs in London. It concludes that though - contrary to Widely-held views - the practical implications of the retention or abolition of the statute will be minor, political and moral considerations strongly advocate aboli- tion. The author of the report, Dr. Stephen J. Roth, shows 2 Questioned in Terrorist's Death BEIRUT — Lebanese au- thorities questioned two members of the Hare Krishna sect — an Ameri- can and a Frenchman — in connection with the bomb- ing death of a Palestinian terrorist reputedly respon- sible for the Munich Olym- pics massacre in 1972. 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