Gerhard Stahlberg, West German consul in San Francisco, was an active participant in the Nazi campaign to annihilate the Jews of Europe, “Democratic German.” a newspaper published in East Berlin, charged today.
The publication stated that on December 11, 1941, Stahlberg, who was then employed in the legal department of the Nazi Foreign Office, drafted and signed a memo randum dealing with the treatment of German Jews throughout Nazi-occupied Europe and of foreign Jews living in Germany. According to “Democratic German,” Stahlberg also suggested in his memorandum that the satellite states of Germany conclude a collective agreement excluding their Jewish citizens from all rights and privileges of citizens.
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