Chilean Prosecutor Urbano Marin today advised the Supreme Court here that it should not grant a request by West Germany for the extradition of Walter Rauff, a Nazi war criminal said to be the killer of many Jews and other persons. Mr. Marin told the court that Chile’s statute of limitations barred any action against Rauff. The Chilean statute of limitations is 15 years while West Germany has a 20-year limitation.
Rauff, who has been described as one of Adolf Eichmann’s principal aides in the mass slaughter of European Jews and whom Eichmann himself identified as having operated mobile gas chambers in Poland and elsewhere, was arrested last month in Puntas Arenas in southernmost Chile. He insisted at his arraignment that he had only obeyed the orders of the Nazi generals.
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