The legal committee of the Bundestag, lower house of the West German Parliament, voted here tonight to close the case against Dr. Theodor Oberlaendor, former Minister for Refugees, who had been accused of having been part of a Nazi team that ordered extermination of Jews and Polish intellectuals, in 1941, at Lwow, Poland.
Dr. Oberlaender resigned under fire from his Cabinet post last May, and requested the establishment of a parliamentary commission to “rehabilitate” him. He is still a member of Parliament.
In voting to close the case, the legal committee expressed doubt about the constitutionality of a parliamentary committee that would investigate the past of a member of Parliament. The committee decided that the recent action by the Bonn prosecutor, who had dismissed the charges of wartime Nazi activities leveled against Dr. Oberlaender constituted “rehabilitation” of the ex-Minister.
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