Informed political sources here asserted today that rehabilitation of former members of the SS, Hitler’s elite guard, was one of the demands of the Free Democratic party in the current coalition talks with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s Christian Democratic Union.
The demands, it was reported, include an amendment to a pension law and a bill for general amnesty of Nazi crimes “with the exception of those perpetrated for personal, deliberate and individual criminal motives.” A draft for such a bill, offered by Free Democratic deputy Ernst Achenbach, has been circulated among Bundestag deputies for the past two years.”
Otto Eisenmann, another Free Democratic deputy, told a meeting of the HIAG, the SS aid organization, in Rendsburg Sunday that it was “about time” that former members of the regular SS were fully rehabilitated.
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