The United Arab Republic has refused to extradite to West Germany Dr. Hans Eisele, a concentration camp doctor who fled to Cairo to escape arrest on war crimes charges, a spokesman for the West German Foreign Office revealed here today.
The spokesman said the UAR authorities based their refusal on a statues of limitations law which provides that alleged crimes must be tried within 10 years of commitment.
Dr. Eisele escaped to Egypt last June after he was accused by witnesses at the trial of Martin Sommer, Buchenwald camp guard, of having murdered Buchenwald prisoners with phenol injections. His escape touched off a series of inquiries into the Munich police department and prosecutor’s office. An investigation of State Attorney Max von Decker, accused of having deliberately deferred the arrest, is still in progress.
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