Canadian Jewish Congress Raps Austrian Acquittal of Eichmann Aide

The Canadian Jewish Congress announced today it has joined the world-wide protests against the acquittal by an Austrian jury of former Nazi SS Capt, Franz Novak, “in full knowledge of his leading role as a principal assistant to the notorious Adolf Eichmann, in carrying out Hitler’s plans for the mass annihilation of European Jewry.”

Michael Garber, president of the CJC, at a meeting of the officers of Congress today, declared: “In view of the incontrovertible evidence of Novak’s complicity in the mass murder of many hundreds of thousands of Jewish men, women and children, the verdict of acquittal is a complete travesty of justice. His acquittal is the most recent of many similar decisions by Austrian courts, indicating that a considerable section of the Austrian population disregards the civilized world’s condemnation of Nazism and racialism, and that the shadow of Nazism still hangs heavily over the Austrian nation.”