Dr. Christian Broda, Minister of Justice in the Austrian Government, has agreed to take any evidence available in the United States against Franz Murer, who served as Gestapo chief in Vilna, and personally prosecute the Nazi war criminal.
Dr. Broda made this pledge on a visit here, after meeting with a delegation representing the Jewish Nazi Victims Organization of America and the group’s volunteer counsel, James B. Donovan, who negotiated with Cuban Premier Castro on the prisoner exchange transaction. Mr. Donovan offered his services to the Nazi victims to assure that Murer, who was recently released from Austrian custody despite his guilt in many murders of Jews, is brought to justice. Other participants in the meeting, at the Austrian Embassy here, included Ambassador Wilfried Platzer and officials of the Nazi Victims Organization, including Moses I. Socachevsky, president, and Felix Lasky, secretary.
Dr. Broda assured the Jewish delegation and Mr. Donovan that, since he himself had been a concentration camp inmate under the Nazis, he would do anything in his power to see that the Gestapo officer is properly punished. Mr. Socachevsky was asked to obtain evidence before Dr. Broda’s return to Austria.
Mr. Socachevsky issued an appeal to any victim of the Nazis, residing in the United States or Canada, who possesses evidence against Maurer, to send it to the Jewish Nazi Victims Organization of America, Inc., in New York.
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