Nazi-hunters Serge and Beat Klarsfeld said at a press conference that they would start a campaign in West Germany to awaken public awareness of Nazi crimes committed in France during World War II. Their decision followed the indictment of Kurt Lishka, who headed the Nazi police in France and was responsible for the mass rounding up of Jews for deportation in 1942. They were taken to the Vel d’Hivev stadium before being sent to Drancy camp near Paris from where they were packed off for the extermination camps of Poland.
The Vel d’Hivev round-up involved 12,000 of the 70,000 French Jews who died in death camps. The Klarsfelds recalled that they attempted to kidnap Lishka in 1971. Their campaign in West Germany will begin in October and involve contacts with the press, government offices and private groups, they said.
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