Legal proceedings against Bavarian prosecutor W. von Decker for dereliction of duty In allowing a Nazi war criminal to slip through his hands were quashed today when it was decided by his superiors that it was “highly improbable ” that he had been bribed to allow Dr. Hans Eisele to escape.
Dr. Eisele, a concentration camp director who killed an crippled many camp Inmates under the guise of medical “experiments,” escaped to Cairo where he has asked the United Arab Republic to grant him asylum from “political persecution. “
After Dr. Eisele’s flight on the eve of his arrest, it became known that Herr von Decker had known some of the details of the doctor’s crimes since 1955 but had taken no action against him.
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