The Dutch Auschwitz Committee has formally protested to West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger against the release last week of former S.S. General Wilhelm Harster. Gen. Harster, 63, who was chief of Hitler’s Holland security policy during World War II, was sentenced Feb. 24, 1967 to 15 years at hard labor for his role in the deportation and eventual deaths of some 82,454 Dutch Jews, among them Anne Frank, the 15-year-old girl whose diary of her days in hiding became world famous.
Gen. Harster was freed under a law which allows release after two-thirds of a sentence was served. Although Gen. Harster had formally served only a little more than a year, a Munich court Judge accepted as time served the eight years Gen. Harster had been held before sentencing in 1967.
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