24 Friday, February 10, 1984
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
ADL Interviews Two Victims
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NEW YORK (JTA) —
The Anti-Defamation
League of Bnai Brith has lo-
cated and interviewed two
victims of Belgian Nazi war
crimingal Robert Jean Ver-
belen, who the agency re-
vealed in December was
employed by U.S. Army
Counter Intelligence (CIC)
after World War II.
The two, former U.S.
Army Air Corps pilot
Eugene Dingledine, now 64,
of Washington, Ill., and
ex-Belgian resistance
fighter Jean Meysman, now
76, of Asse, Belgium, were
interviewed in Illinois and
in Belgium by ADL staff.
They described how a
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tured and beat them — and
a second American military
officer — after storming
their Belgian farmhouse
hideout in August 1944.
The two Americans were
then incarcerated in Nazi
prison camps. Verbelen was
convicted three years later
by a Belgian court of 67 war
crimes charges, including
those stemming from the
incident.
Justin Finger, director
of ADL's civil rights di-
vision, said ADL has
turned over the informa-
tion gathered from
Dingledine and Meysman
to the Justice Depart-
ment's Office of Special
Investigations which is
looking into the Verbelen
case.
ADL's documentation
that American authorities
had hired the Nazi war
criminal was given to the
Justice Department in De-
cember. Those materials
were obtained by ADL from
U.S. government docu-
ments under the Freedom of
Information Act, from trial
records of the Belgian gov-
ernment and from other
sources.
In calling for an investi-
gation of Verbelen's re-
cruitment, his nine-year
employment (1947-1956) in
Vienna by the CIC, and how
he escaped from Belgium to
Austria and was able to ob-
tain Austrian citizenship,
ADL described Verbelen's
employment by the U.S. as
"a second Klaus Barbie
case." The Justice Depart-
ment confirmed last August
that Barbie, the "butcher of
Lyons" who sent thousands
to their deaths in World
War II, had been employed
by American authorities.
According to ADL,
Dingledine and the other
American, Lt. D'Nuncio
Streett, were shot down
over Belgium, May 1, 1944,
while on a mission to bomb
railroad yards in Metz,
France. Finger said ADL
has also obtained a letter
written by Streett in 1945
describing the beatings he
had received.
Verbelen was sen-
tenced to death in absen-
tia by the Belgian court in
1947 for crimes involving
mass murders, the killing
of Jews, betrayal of Bel-
gian resistance fighters,
as well as torturing the
two Americans. Now 72,
Verbelen resides in Vie-
nna.
During the summer of
1944, Dingledine and
Streett hid with Meysman,
who was an activist in the
Belgian resistance.
In his 1945 letter, Streett
said that they were seized
after a "short-lived strug-
gle" and were "terribly be-
aten following the siege."
Verbelen was a leader
during World War II of
the Flemish Nazi group
Der Vlag (The Flag). The
records show that he was
hired in 1955 as an agent
of Austria's state police
and four years later was
granted Austrian citizen-
ship.
In 1965, he was tried and
acquitted by an Austrian
court on war crimes
charges, on grounds that he
was simply following orders
promulgated by the Ger-
man occupation govern-
ment. This triggered sharp
protests in Belgium as well
as in other nations.
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