Walter Zech-Nenntwich, the former SS officer who fled from a maximum security prison in West Germany to seek refuge in Egypt, has left Cairo for Ethiopia, it was reported here today from the Egyptian capital.
The former Nazi had been convicted of complicity in the wartime murder of 5,200 Jews in the Pinsk Ghetto. He fled to Switzerland and turned up in Cairo, where he boasted that a Nazi secret underground had aided his escape last April.
He left Cairo at the “suggestion” of Egyptian authorities, who reportedly advised him to leave to end any possible friction between Egypt and the West German Government, which had formally requested the Egyptian Government to extradite him.
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