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Nazi hunters have never
abandoned their quest for
Brunner, but now their
hopes of bringing him, to
justice have been fueled by
the air of glasnost which is
blowing through the cor-
ridors of the Kremlin.
They are calculating that
the Soviet Union, which is
seeking a role of respec-
tability alongside the United
States in international af-
fairs and which is the prin-
cipaL.patron of the Syrian
regime, may be amenable to
persuading the Syrian
leader to abandon the old
Nazi.
Foremost among the Nazi
hunters seeking to bring
Brunner to justice is
celebrated French lawyer
Serge Klarsfeld who, with
his wife, Beate, tracked
Brunner to his home in
Syria.
Now Klarsfeld is planning
to launch an international
campaign designed to con-
vince governments around
the world to renew their
pressure on President Assad.
Glasnost notwithstanding,
Klarsfeld does not
underestimate the battle
ahead. He believes that the
Syrians may have good
reasons for wanting to keep
Brunner in Damascus.
"Brunner was very active
in the Syrian political police
in the '50s and '60s,"
Klarsfeld said in London last
week.
"There are rumors that he
helped Assad to stage his
coup and that he then
became part of the govern-
ment."
It is possible, he believes,
that Brunner, who apparent-
ly still acts as a "security
adviser" to Assad, may have
information about the
Syrian regime that the
Syrian leader would rather
keep under wraps.
Klarsfeld's solution to this
dilemma takes the form of a
diplomatic compromise:
Brunner, he says, should be
extradited to an East
European country —
Czechoslovakia or East
Germany, both of which
have issued warrants for his
arrest.
In addition, Klarsfeld is
proposing that the
extraditing country should
offer Syria an assurance that
Brunner's interrogation
would be limited to the
period up to 1945 — a guar-
antee that Syria would be
shielded from potentially
embarrassing revelations
about Brunner's post-war
activities in Damascus.
The French lawyer has
never seen Brunner, but he
has been, quite literally,
within inches of the SS cap-
tain. Moreover, he has a per-
sonal score to settle with the
old Nazi: Brunner was
responsible for the murder of
Klarsfeld's father.
"A thin plywood partition
was all that stood between
Brunner and me when he
and his SS men broke into
our Nice apartment," says
Klarsfeld. "My father had
hidden my mother, sister
and me behind the false back
of a cupboard.
"I will never forget the
screams of our friends — the
little Jewish girls next door
— who were beaten by the
Gestapo to force their
parents to reveal where
their eldest son was hidden.
All of them, my father in-
cluded, were murdered in
Auschwitz.
"I have not actually seen
Brunner," he adds, "but I
know him well. As long as
there is breath in my body, I
will not give up the fight to
have him extradited."❑
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Victims Demand
Reparations
Bonn (JTA) — Jewish and
non-Jewish groups in the
West German state of North
Rhine-Westphalia are
demanding that the state
and federal governments
immediately make available
reparations funds for Nazi
victims that were authorized
but never paid out.
A statement released in
Cologne noted that a 300
million mark fund was es-
tablished three years ago to
make reparations , available
for Nazi victims who had not
been compensated.
But because of extremely
rigid criteria, only 1.6
million marks were actually
paid, equivalent now to
about $825,000 of the
original $155 million.
The beneficiaries were
supposed to include victims
who were sterilized. Experts
estimate their number at
about 50,000.
According to statistics
released by the German
Association for Social
Psychiatry, only 10 percent
of 1,400 former victims who
applied for reparations actu-
ally received money.
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