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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Heavy Pressure on Germany to Continue War Crime Trials

sed by Gov. Hugh Carey,
The Jewish Com- political leaders and
munity Council of Met- Jewish War Veterans
ropolitan Detroit met national commander
with West German Nathan M. Goldberg.
Last Thursday, 500
Counsel-General
Richard Wagner last survivors of Nazi con-
week on the statute of centration camps were
issue. joined by student delega-
limitations
Wagner sent a report of tions from Columbia and
the meeting to the _West New York Universities
German Embassy in and Queens College, pic-
Washington and to the keted the West German
Mission to the United
government in Bonn.
Th In New York, the Nations.
The Council of
ate Assembly, and Se-
passed a joint resol- Europe appealed last
ution urging President Friday to its 21
Jimmy Carter to per- member-states to
suade the West German ratify a convention
government to end the which would permit
statute of limitations. the prosecution of war
Some 500 persons par- criminals without any
ticipated in a rally in Al- time limit. The conven-
bany which was addres- tion, if ratified, would

do away with statutes •
of limitations for war
crimes committed dur-
ing World War II. The
Council, which has an
advisory role, also cal-
led on member coun-
tries to cooperate in
prosecuting World
War II war criminals.

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Council of Europe
Seeking to End
All Limitations

The convention was
passed five years ago by
the -Council but not a
single country has
ratified it as yet. Three
parliamentarians, all
from West. Germany,
abstained in Friday's
vote. Seven others,
mainly from the Scan-
dinavian countries,
voted against the appeal

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saying it is in
with their national
legislation.
A Dutch member of the
Council, Socialist Pieter
Stoeffelen, said that
3,000 to 4,000 war crimi-
nals have escaped pro-
secution.
Simon Wiesenthal has
during the past months
submitted to the Dutch
Justice Ministry the
names of 10 former
Dutch war criminals
who, after having been
sentenced to death or life
imprisonment in absen-
tia during the first
post-war years, are still
free in various West
European countries.
In New York, Nazi-
hunter Tuvia Fried-
man of Haifa said

Anti-Semitic School Incident Draws Attention in Germany
Following TV Holocaust Series and Neo-Nazi Actions

BONN (JTA) — An
American exchange teacher
has resigned from a West
Berlin public school after
students drew anti-Semitic
slogans on the blackboard
in his classroom. The
American, Thomas Still, is
now teaching at another
school after he was greeted
at the Carl Zeiss Junior
School with such slogans as
"Gas Jews."

Peter Soetje, a spokesman
for the West Berlin city gov-

Austrian TV in March.
West German television
viewers will see another
film on their home sc-
reens March 1 portraying
the life of a Jewish family
in Berlin during the Nazi
era. It is titled "David Es-
caped From the Net;" an
adaptation of an au-
tobiographical novel by
Joel Koening, first pub-
lished in 1960.
Meanwhile, 12 persons
have been arrested in the
past week and weapons and

ernment, said there had
been nine such incidents in
the last three years. He said
in one incident pupils drew
a swastika on a girl's coat.
The latest incident has
been widely reported in
Germany because . of the
public debate about the
Nazi period following the
showing of the NBC-TV
series "Holocaust" on West
Germany television.
"Holocaust" is being
shown on Swiss televi-
sion this month and on

Anti-Nazi Demonstrators at White House
Are Jailed; Dr. Kremer Included

WASHINGTON (JTA)
demonstration in front of
the White House to focus at-
tention on Nazi war crimi-
nals residing in this country
ended 20 minutes after it
began when Tark police ar-
rested seven of the 20 de-
monstrators who had hand-
cuffed themselves to a
White House fence.
Among those arrested
was Dr. Charles H. Kremer,
the 81-year-old dentist from
New York City, Who for the
past 30 years has been seek-
ing to bring to justice the
former Romanian Iron
Guard leader, Bishop Vale-
rian Trifa who is living in
Grass Lake, Mich.
Kremer is president of the
Committee to Bring Nazi
ar Criminals. to Justice in

srael Can Beat
a Soviet -Attack

WASHINGTON (ZINS)
— A former Defense De-
partment official, Earl
Rownal, wrote in Foreign
Policy magazine that Israel
could defend itself if it was
attacked by several Soviet
parachute divisions using
conventional weapons.
He wrote that Israel's
military will -deter Soviet
intervention in the Middle
East; that peace will come to
the Middle East if the U.S.
does not get too involved;
and that the U.S. should not
sign a mutual defense pact
with Israel.

that INS' Special Litigation
Unit has dragged its feet in
bringing these criminals to
justice.
In addition to focusing
on the war criminals in
the U.S., the demonstra-
tion also sought to high-
light opposition to the
West German statute of
limitations for prosecut-
ing Nazi war criminals
which is slated to take ef-
fect at the end of the year.
The seven who were ar-
rested were booked for dis-
orderly conduct, finger-
printed, photographed and
fined $10 each, according to
a spokesman for the group.
He said Jan. 21 was chosen
for the demonstration be-
cause it marked the 38th
anniversary of the massacre
in Bucharest.

the U.S. -
a
to
Accofiling
spokesman for the de-
monstrators, Kremer has
during the years located
a number of witnesses
who have attested that
Trifa was indeed the
leader of an Iron Guar-
dist uprising in Romania
in January 1941 that
culminated in the murder
of some 6,500 people, in-
cluding some 200 Jews.
Trifa, now Archbishop of
the Romanian Orthodox
Episcopate in America, was
indicted May 16, 1975, for
misrepresenting the facts
about his past when he en-
tered the U.S. in 1950.
Kremer, and others who
have been seeking to bring
to justice war criminals liv-
ing in the U.S., has charged

literature we seized in a
police crackdown on a neo-
Nazi gang in central West
Germany.

All the suspects face
charges of criminal conspi-
racy and advo-cating illegal
neo-Nazi activities. Five
submachine guns, an au-
tomatic rifle, pistols, am-
munition and more than 15
pounds of plastic explosives
were confiscated in the
raids.

50,000 Nazis were wait-
ing for Dec. 31, adding,
"They will build a new
Nazi Party in Ger-
many."
Friedman, who helped
bring Adolf Eichmann to
justice nearly 20 years
ago, arrived from West
Germany where he met
with officials of the Bonn
government. He said
that Minister of Justice
Dr. Hans Joachim Vogel
supports efforts to repeal
the statute of limita-
tions.
In London, four mem-
bers of parliament led by
Winiton Churchill's
grandson, appealed to

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to neo-Nazism, - a former
army officer being tried on
neo-Nazi charges described
West Germany as a "Jewish
republic" and said German
Jews should be deprived of
their citizenship and placed
under "guest law" requiring
them to behave as guests.

Former Lt. Michael
Kuehnen, 23, told the
court last week that his
aim was to have the con-
stitutional ban on the
Nazi Party lifted or to re-
establish it under a new
name.
He and a 21-year-old stu- .
dent, Fried'helm
PuetzMann, are charged
with spreading Nazi prop-
aganda, inciting racial
hatred and glorifying vio-
lence. _Kuehnen, who was
discharged from the army in
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the Weet German am-
bassador on the statute of
limitations issue. The
four plan to meet pri-
vately with West Ger-
man legislators before
any vote is taken.

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