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British Parliament Discusses Exhumation of Nazi War Criminals

March 17, 1954
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The British Government will not take any action on the reinterment of 91 convicted and executed Nazi war criminals who were recently exhumed from a mass grave and reburied in individual graves in Lower Saxony.

When the question was raised in Commons yesterday by several Labor MP’s, including Barnett Janner, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden said that the British Government had no responsibility in the matter, the German authorities had acted without consulting Britain and were not required to consult the British.

In response to demands that he take action, Secretary Eden refused, adding “this matter was done decently and without any provocation and there were no demonstrations or anything of the kind. I am not prepared to pursue hatred beyond the grave.”

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