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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
8 Friday, February 15, 1980
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West German Court Sentences Three Ex-Nazis
BONN (JTA) — A Col-
ogne court pronounced
prison sentences of up to 12
years Monday on three
former Gestapo officials
who were closely involved
in the deportation of French
Jews and others to Nazi
death camps during World
War H.
The
defendants,
Herbert-Martin Hagen, 66;
Kurt Lischka, 70, and Ernst .
Heinrichsohn, 59,- will re-
main free pending the out-
come of their appeals, just
as they had been free during-
the course of the trial.
Hagen, who was the per-
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sonal assistant of the SS criminals to justice.
police chief in Paris and
Serge Klarsfeld, a
headed a Gestapo depart-
French attorney who lost
ment there, was sentenced
many of his relatives in
to 12 years by Judge Heinz the Holocaust, lauded the
Fassbender.
court's decision. "I'm
Lischka, one-time head very satisfied with the
of the Paris Gestapo.
verdict and very gratified
drew a 10-year sentence
about the way the case
and Heinrichsohn, who was handled by the
had worked in the Ges-
court." Klarsfeld, with
tapo's Jewish Affairs
the aid of his non-Jewish
Department, received six wife, Beate, led the cam-
years.
paign to bring the three
A panel of three judges men to trial.
and two civilians found
As a Christian, seeking to
them guilty of complicity in
make amends to the Jews
the murders of thousands of for her co-religionists who
Jews, Communists and stood by as Jews were de-
other anti-Nazis who they
ported and murdered, Mrs.
deported from France.
Klarsfeld carried on a per-
The sentences were
sonal campaign against
applauded by the several
Lischka.
dozen French youths who
Several years ago, she
were in the 'courtroom,
slapped his face in public to
members of the Union of
draw attention to the Nazi
Sons and Daughters of De-
past of the man who sought
portees. Some of them wore
anonymity.
concentration camp uni-
In a two-hour state-
forms and badges bearing
the words, "I am a Jew from meat in which he re-
France." viewed the evidence
The Organization of against the three men
Former Jewish Deportees and explained the sen-
and Resistance Fighters in tences, Judge Fassben-
Paris expressed satisfaction der observed that all of
that a German court had fi- them must have realized
nally brought these war that death awaited many
of the 73,000 men, women shortest sentence be-
and children they de- cause, as a sergeant in the
SS he was subordinate to
ported from France.
The main defense during Lischka and Hagen.
Heinrichsohn, a member
the trial was that the ac-
cused were unaware of the of the Christian Social
fate that awaited their vic- Union, was mayor of
Burgstadt, a small town in
tims.
In the case of Lischka, Bavaria at the time of his
arrest.
The CSU announced
Fassbender referred to a
document entered as evi- that he has resigned from
that
post.
dence which bore his signa-
He was the only defen-
ture and referred to the "to-
dant who admitted "moral
tal annihilation of Jews."
guilt" though he denied
The judge said that while criminal guilt on
grounds
Lischka ranked high in the that he was unaware
that
Gestapo it was not he but the deportees faced
death.
Gen. Karl Oberg, Gestapo
chief for all of France, who
was primarily responsible
for the deportations. How-
ever, he said, as a trained
lawyer, Lischka must have
for your party
been aware of the massive
injustice inflicted on the de-
portees.
By
Fassbender said the court
considered Hagen to be the
main culprit of the three be-
cause he served longest in
France.
Call
Although witnesses
decribed Heinrichsohn
as especially brutal in his
treatment of children,
Fassbender explained
that he was given the
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Stolen Torah Scrolls Found By Hunter
NEW YORK (JTA) — Memphis, after a hunter
Two congregations in Mem- discovered one of them in
phis, Tenn., are trying to re- the water. A search of the
store four Torah scrolls area led to the discovery of
found in a river after bur- the other three and a part of
glaries at the synagogues. a fifth.
The four were among six
The Torahs still had their
scrolls stolen from Anshei coverings but the silver or-
Sphard-Beth El Emeth (Or-
naments were apparently
thodox) and Beth Sholom taken by the thieves, Israel
Synagogue (Conservative) said.
in late January.
Allen
Rabbi Edmund Winter,
Israel,
vice
president of Beth Sholom, of Beth Sholom, told the
said the Torahs were re- JTA that the two
covered in the Wolf River in synagogues were trying
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in 20 years of ethnic com-
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