Austria’s Cabinet voted today to amend the Criminal Code, providing that no statute of limitations would operate in this country in regard to arrest, prosecution and punishment for capital crimes.
The amendment included specifically “all crimes committed by Nazis between 1938 and 1945,” specifying that prosecution for such crimes may be begun any time in the future “without any time limitation.”
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