The former Auschwitz trial prosecutor accused today the Bundestag and the German high courts of protecting major Nazi war criminals by preventing their trials while prosecuting the “little” murderers. Joachim Kuegler made his charge in Frankfort during the trial of Juozas Stasaitis, 50, who is charged with the murder of more than 1000 Jewish women, children and old people in Lithuania during the summer of 1941. Kuegler is the defendant’s attorney.
He said the “big” war criminals protected include Dr. Hans Globke, former Secretary of State and chief advisor to the late Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. According to Kuegler, Globke gave the Nazis juridical justification for the mass liquidation of Jews, Kuegler said he knew of no former prominent Nazi intellectual who has been brought to trial in West Germany.
A commemorative plaque with bas relief was erected in the Bulgarian city of Haskovo in the memory of three Bulgarian Jewish partisans killed 28 years ago. The three partisans were Moise Benbassat, Efraim Bentzion and Hal Bally.
The AFL-CIO Executive Council, in a statement on the forthcoming US-USSR summit conference, said that President Nixon would “render a great humanitarian service and enhance the prestige” of the United Nations by vigorously urging the Soviet government to assure everyone the right to leave and to go to Israel or any other country of their choice.
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