!", T li!nr THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS NEWS Wiesenthal Center presses call for Rauff investigation I= 1•■ New York (JTA) — The Born in Kothen, Ger- Simon Wiesenthal Center many on June 19, 1906, said that it will continue to Rauff joined Hitler's Nazi press the Vatican to conduct police at the age of 31. He an investigation into moved up to the rank of col- church-related activities in onel in the SS and later y involving Walter served in Tunisia and Italy aff, the Nazi War crimi- before being arrested in nal and inventor of the Milan where he was the mobile gas vans, despite his police chief in the war's last death in Chile this week at stages. the age of 77. He was sent to the Rimini "It does not put the mat- detention center, but soon ter to rest," said Gerald escaped and at the end of Margolis, director of the Los 1946 went to Naples. In tes- Angeles-based Wiesenthal timony before the Chilean Center. He said the center Supreme Court, Rauff said will continue to urge Pope he was aided in Italy after John Paul II to open Vati- his escape from Rimini by a can archives and investi- Catholic priest and shel- gate what the center alleges tered in "convents of the was church aid to Rauff Holy See" for some 18 after the war and help for months. him in fleeing Europe to He was reunited with his safe haven in South family and travelled to America. Syria, then to Ecuador in The center last week re- 1949 and finally to Chile leased 43 pages of docu- where he lived since 1958. ments, some of them prey- He maintained his Ger- iously classified by U.S._ citizenship. In 1963, government intelligencethe Chilean Supreme Court, agencies, which provide rejected a request for his ex- additional information tradition from West Ger- linking Rauff to important many on the basis that figures in the Catholic Chile's 15-year statue of Church in Italy during and limitations had expired. after the war. Rauff told the Rauff, who suffered from Chilean Supreme Court in 1962 that he was provided lung cancer in recent years, aid and shelter by the had lived primarily in San- church. tiago and was rarely seen in public. Last February, In Israel, the reaction to p. Beate Rauffs death was a sense of Nazi-hunter frustration that war crimi- Klarsfeld was arrested out- nals continue to remain free side Rauffs home in San- cr during a demonstra- without being brought to tiago justice for their war crimes. tion urging the Chilean "It is a pity that this man government to extradite will not be brought to jus- Rauff to West Germany. Is- tice," said Avi Pasner, rael . also sought his extradi- spokesman for premier Yit- ton. zhak Shamir. But despite the interna- "It is shameful. We hope tional efforts to have Rauff that other war criminals brought to justice, Chile who are still hiding will not President Augusto Pinochet escape their punishment." would not act on the re- quests. He-maintained in an Gideon Hausner, chair- interview last March that man -of Yad Vashem and "the highest court in the prosecutor ofNazi war trim- land decided Rauff could inal Adolph Eichmann at stay." While he said he re- his 1961 trial, expressed gretted Rauffs actions dur- simil ar frustration that ing the war, Pinochet said, Rauff never was brought to "But that was a long time justice. He said Rauff was ago. I can't do anything one of the privileged war about it once the courts criminals to have died in his have decided." own bed, escaping justice for Meanwhile, in a Wash- many years. ington ceremony this week, a uff is held responsible the U.S. turned over six files the death of an esti- on Nazi mass murderers to mated 200,000 Jews in Israel for inclusion in Yad Europe who were killed in Vashem, the Holocaust the mobile gas vans he de- memorial in Jerusalem. signed which channeled The files were from the exhaust fumes back into the air-tight vehicles. Known U.S. Justice Department's as "black ravens," the vans Office of Special Investiga- were sometimes disguised tions (OSI). Attending the ceremony in the office of At- as Red Cross vehicles. torney General William They were used primarily French Smith were Israeli in the early stages of the Ambassador Meir Rosenne; Holocaust before the con- Neal Sher, director of the struction of Auschwitz and OSI; and Mark Talisman, other death camps which vice chairman of the U.S. carried out Hitler's final Holocaust Memorial Coun- solution on a larger scale. cil. AIR CONDITIONER CHECK-UP Authorized Dealer • • • • • • • • • • • • Check Condenser Check Coil Temperature Check for Leaks Oil Motor Check Amps Check Contactors Check Filters Check Condensate Line Check Thermostat Check Pressures Check Belt Check Safety Switches 12 POINT CHECK-UP 95 $ 44 parts & coil cleaning extra Our 55th Year CENTRAL HEATING CO. 353-8400 24250 W. 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