Many former Nazis, some of them with records as war criminals, and many others with records as judges, prosecutors and high police officials who had helped the Hitler regime send thousands of Jews and others to their deaths, are now being employed by the West German Government and German state governments, to prosecute former Nazis, according to an article printed here today by the New York Herald Tribune.
The article, by Werner H. Guttman, identified by the newspaper as a New York engineer who had escaped from Germany in 1935 and had done confidential work for the U.S. Government during World War II, listed among others the chief justice of the West German Federal Supreme Court in Karlsruhe, who had allegedly been a state supreme court judge under Hitler; a legal expert in the present Bonn Foreign Ministry, who is charged with having been the Nazi attorney general in Czechoslovakia; and a public prosecutor who had been a Hitler judge advocate in France and who had handed down “numerous death sentences” for petty offenses.
“The example set by the (German) Federal Government in failing to remove Nazis from its civil service,” the author declared, “is eagerly followed by state governments where closely knit cliques of ex-Nazis exercise control over important political appointments.”
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