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Holland Says German Envoy in Argentina Deported No Dutch Jews

January 20, 1965
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Dr. Louis de Jong, director of the Dutch Government’s War Documentation Institute here, and an expert on wartime Nazi activities in this country, denied today that the West German Ambassador to Argentina had played a role in deporting Dutch Jews to concentration camps.

The East German news agency, ADN, published a charge last week, accusing Dr. Ernst Guenther Mohr, West German envoy to Buenos Aires, of having participated during the war in the deportation of Dutch Jews to the Mauthausen concentration camp. According to Dr. de John, however, Dr. Mohr, who was on the staff of the German Legation to The Hague before World War II broke out, left Holland in May 1941, whereas the deportation of Jews under the Nazi regime here did not start until July 1942.

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