A Hamburg attorney was arrested here on charges of collaborating with Dr. Werner Heyde, the Nazi “euthanasia doctor” in carrying out the latter’s program of killing large groups of Jews and others.
The attorney, Dietrich Allers, 52, legal advisor to the Hamburg shipbuilding firm Deutsche Werft, was accused by officials of the Ludwigsburg Central Office of Nazi Crimes of participating in the deportation in 1942-43 of Jews to the extermination camps of Belchek, Treblinka and Sobibor. The officials said that Allers was from 1941 to 1945 the managing director of the central organization responsible for the extermination of mentally deficient and other so-called undesirable persons.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
