Ministers of Justice of the West German states will meet here on April 8 to discuss again accusations leveled by Communist East German authorities against former Nazi judges and prosecutors now holding positions in West Germany, it was announced today.
The meeting was arranged despite a statement by a spokesman for the West German Ministry of Justice on March 4 that the photostatic copies of trial documents presented by Hans Melsheimer, East German Attorney General, were “propagandistic” and that some of the material was “superfluous” because action had been started against some of the jurists.
The Hessian Ministry of Justice announced that charges against three officials in the Hessian Judiciary were being reviewed. In Hamburg, the Attorney General’s office said that no disciplinary action had been started against officials named by Czechoslovak and East German sources. The material did not warrant action, it was asserted.
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