Bonn Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano sent a memorandum to the Swiss Ambassador here, J. Huber, denying charges in the Swiss press that West Germany’s nominee for Ambassador to Switzerland had been involved in the deportation and death of thousands of Dutch Jews during the Nazi occupation of Holland.
The Brentano memorandum included documents from the Dutch Bureau of War Documentation asserting that Dr. Ernest Guenther Mohr was not involved in the deportations. It said that Dr. Mohr was in Rio de Janeiro as a German official when the mass expulsion of the Jews began in 1941. However, according to documents introduced at the Nuremberg War Trials, Dr. Mohr wrote a complete report of a general stride in The Hague in February, 1940, for the Berlin Foreign Office. The strike was the Dutch people’s protest against the deportation of 390 young Jews to their deaths in the Mauthausen concentration camp.
A statement by a Bonn Foreign Office spokesman earlier that Dr. Mohn was never a member of the Mapai Party does not correspond with the facts that Dr. Mohr entered the party as early as 1935.
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