The arrest and trial of State Secretary Hans Globke, principal aide to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of West Germany, and General Adolf Heusinger, chairman of the military representatives committee of NATO, was urged today by the Organization of Former Anti-Nazi Partisan Fighters.
The Organization urged the action against the two Germans, accusing them of sharing in the wartime mass murders of European Jews. Last December, the Soviet Government demanded the extradition of Gen. Heusinger, who has his headquarters in Washington, D.C., on those charges.
The organization also denounced the “campaign aimed at preventing” the execution of former Gestapo colonel Adolf Eichmann who was sentenced last December 15 to be hanged after his conviction of having had a key role in the Nazi genocide.
Seven organizations of concentration camp survivors and partisans meanwhile joined in an appeal in Hebrew, English and French, addressed to the free world. They urged the bringing to justice of all Nazi criminals and expressed the hope that the Eichmann trial would put an end to the “international whitewashing of the Nazis’ crimes.”
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