A demand that West Germany pass a special law, extending the statute of limitations in war crime cases beyond next May, was voiced here today by Otto Brenner, chairman of the German Metal Workers Union. Under the present law, war criminals would be exempt from further prosecution after May 8, 1965, the twentieth anniversary of the official end of World War II.
A sentence of life imprisonment, the most severe under West German law, was demanded yesterday by the prosecution in the trial of former SS Gen. Karl Wolff, charged with complicity in the wartime murder of some 300,000 Jews in occupied Poland. Wolff, now a 64-year-old businessman, was an adjutant to Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler and the highest ranking Nazi to go on trial in postwar Germany. His trial began three months ago.
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