Legislation designed to postpone the hanging of the seven German war criminals convicted for mass-murder of tens of thousands of Jews and others in Poland and the Ukraine during the Nazi occupation, and to give them a chance to appeal to the U.S. courts was introduced today by Rep. R. Armstrong, a Missouri Republican.
Congressman Armstrong said that to execute these war criminals six years after the war and without an opportunity for court review would “be an affront to the growing sense of cooperation between the German people and our people.”
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