American military authorities are investigating four Austrians employed in the Steyrwerke car factory in Linz following a complaint by displaced Jews that the men had beaten Jewish slave laborers in an S.S. controlled plant in Radom, Poland, during the war.
The Jews charged that the recently-appointed director of the plant, H. Janka, was also the director of the Nazi plant and that he had been the leader in the assaults. Another empolyee, identified as Mueller, was accused of having beaten Jewish women across the stomach with a rubber hose. The Austrian police are investigating.
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