The Bamberg public prosecutor revealed today, in connection with the controversy over the Israeli seizure of Adolf Eichmann, that Argentina several years ago refused a West German request for extradition of a former German Foreign Office official accused of participation in the wartime mass murders of Jews.
The Federal Republic had asked Argentina for the extradition of Karl Klingenfuss’, a counsellor in Hitler’s Foreign Ministry. Inquiries into Klingenfuss’ case were opened in 1952 on the basis of information obtained in the prosecution of Fritz Radcmacher, another former counsellor. Rademacher was sentenced to three years and five months’ imprisonment when he was convicted as an accessory in the killing of 1. 300 Siberian Jews. He escaped while his appeal from the sentence was pending.
A spokesman for the West German Ministry of Justice denied today reports from Cairo that the West German Republic would ask extradition of Adolf Eichmann from Israel. “We have been deliberating such a step during the past two weeks but a request will not be made because there is no extradition treaty between Israel and the Federal Republic,” he said.
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