A three-day conference of Justice Ministers of the West German states ended today with a decision to support and strengthen the Central Office for Investigation of War Criminals in Ludwigsburg.
The Justice Ministers also expressed full confidence in the director of the Ludwigsburg center, Dr. Erwin Schuele, senior attorney general, who has been the target of Communist charges that he was a Nazi and was involved in Nazi wartime mass murders of Jews and others in occupied Russia. Dr. Schuele and his supporters have denied the charges and Dr. Schuele has declared he was ready to face any investigation.
In another conference action, Justice Minister Wolfgang Haussmann of Baden-Wurttemberg, chairman of the conference, appealed to all persons holding material on Nazi war criminals to transmit it to the Ludwigsburg office to enable it to bring more criminals to trial. The conference was attended by Richard Jaeger, the new federal Justice Minister.
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