Richard Crossman, Labor M.P., in an article published here today, severely criticized former Prime Minister Winston Churchill for opposing the prosecution of Baron Ernst von Weizaaecker on war crimes charges. Writing in the current issue of New Statesman and Nation, Crossman reviews the evidence against the former Garman Secretary of State in the Foreign Office and the Nazi’s wartime ambassador to the Vatican, who is now on trial at Nuremberg together with some 20 other Nazi ministers and high officials.
Crossman points out that von Weizaaecker participated in a high level conference in 1942 at which it was decided to exterminate the Jews and that he later granted Adolph Eichmann, the Nazis’ "expert" on Jews, permission to deport 6,000 Jews to the Oswiecim concentration camp. He also acknowledged to Josef Tiso, ex-head of the Slovak puppet state, the receipt of 5,200 Slovak Jews at Nazi camps and demanded that 35,000 others be handed over. Crossman charges.
The member of the British Parliament points out that the murder of an individual Englishman is considered a crime to be tried before an English court, but that apparently similar treatment is not accorded persons who use gas chambers to kill millions of Jews, Slave and gypsies.
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