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Former Partisans in Israel Add Their Protest on Novak Release

October 25, 1966
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A delegation of former partisans and fighters against Nazism presented today to the Austrian Embassy here a protest against the acquittal by a Vienna jury court of former SS officer Franz Novak. Novak, Eichmann’s chief transport officer, was acquitted for a second time on October 6. An earlier acquittal by a Salzburg court had been reversed by the Austrian Supreme Court which ordered a retrial.

The Austrian Embassy charge d’ Affairs, who accepted the protest, told the delegation that Embassy members felt badly about the acquittal. The protest, addressed to the President of Austria, was forwarded to Vienna.

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