A delegation representing three major Jewish organizations in France presented to the West German Ambassador to France today a protest against West Germany’s decision to abide by the statute of limitations on prosecution of Nazi war crimes. The statute is scheduled to become effective next May 8.
The delegates, representing the Alliance Israelite Universelle, CRIF, the representative council of French Jews and the World Jewish Congress, asked Ambassador Klaiber to inform the West German Government of the “grave view” taken by French Jewry on the decision. The delegation also urged that West German authorities act to change the decision and to continue to prosecute war criminals, some of whom “are guilty of the most heinous crimes known to humanity” after next May 8.
Before meeting with the West German envoy, the French Jewish leaders called on the French Foreign Ministry to seek French support for the effort to induce West Germany to change the decision. The delegates handed to French Foreign Ministry officials a written request that the French Government intervene, at the a earliest possible time, through its representatives in Born for a change in the decision, A mass meeting of protest against the West German decision was here tonight.
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