Philip Klutznick. president of B’nai B’rith, submitted to the State Department today a report, received from reliable sources, establishing that former Nazi officials are now administering a vast persecution program against Jews in Egypt. He urged that the facts be investigated by the United States and the United Nations.
The report said that five concentration camps have been established in Egypt with a capacity for all of Egypt’s Jewish inhabitants It stated that a systematic campaign against Egyptian Jewry has been launched by the so-called State Security Agency directed by former Nazis no win Egypt under assumed names.
The State Security Agency is responsible for anti-Jewish measures according to B’nai B’rith, and constitutes a 70, 000 man force, including 6, 249 Nazis operating under “Arabized” names. The Agency is organized along the lines of the Nazi security service, the former “Sicherheitsdienst.” Commanding the State Security Cadre is Lt. Col. Al Nacher who is identified by B’nai B’rith as Leopold Gleim, one-time chief of the Nazi secret guard. Anti-Jewish laws were inspired by Lt G Ben Salem, the report said, identifying this officer as former SS leader Bernhard Bender Chief of the Egyptian secret police charged with anti-Jewish strategy is a former Gestapo Chief Heinrich Selmann, now under the allies of “Lt. Col. Hamin Suleiman.”
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