A campaign to prevent the extension of the Statute of Limitations, which limits the prosecution of Nazi war criminals after May 8, was started today by the right-wing Deutsche National-Zeitung and Soldaten-Zeitung which has a large circulation among Germans who formerly served in the German armed forces.
In an outspoken anti-Semitic front-page article, carrying the headline “Capitulation Before World Judaism,” the newspaper dealt with the debate now going on in West Germany over the extension of the statute of limitations. “German politicians,” the paper wrote. “have given in to Jewish blackmail and pressure to prolong the statute of limitations.”
Meanwhile, it was reported today from Prague that the Czechoslovak Justice Ministry transmitted to Bonn recently-discovered Nazi documents on killings of European resistance fighters and of many thousands of Jews. The report said that documents on 400 cases which required immediate attention had been transmitted to West German authorities in support of those seeking the prolongation of the prosecution of Nazis.
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