Evidence purportedly implicating State Secretary Hans Globke, right-hand man of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, in overt anti-Semitic activities during the Hitler regime was presented to the State Prosecutor here today by two East German, Communist prosecutors.
Dr. Globke, who has never denied having worked with the Nazi regime as a legal expert, has always claimed that he only wrote a “commentary” on the Nuremberg Laws, the Hitler code of racist, anti-Semitic practices adopted by the Nazi Reichstag in 1935. The top aide to Dr. Adenauer has insisted, however, that he had no hand in the drafting or implementation of the Nuremberg Laws.
In today’s evidence, consisting of photostatic copies of documents which they said have recently been discovered at Potsdam, the Communist prosecutors said they have found proof that Globke “had helped draft the Nuremberg Laws and helped implement them.” The Communist attorneys said the material had been found in the files of Hitler’s former Minister of the Interior.
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