The government was criticized this week-end by the New York Times for the release before completion of sentence of 19 loading Nazis convicted of war crimes by the Nuremberg tribunal between 1947 and 1949. The Times pointed out editorially that the 19, including former steel magnate Friodrich Flick, Hitler press chief Otto Dietrich and former Nazi Food Minister Walther Darre, who were released for “good conduct” in jail, were convicted of furthering a program which resulted in the death of six million Jews.
The World Jewish Congress today announced that it was preparing a plan for the international supervision of the cemeteries of Jewish victims of Nazism in Germany. The announcement, made by Dr. Israel Goldstein, chairman of the Western Hemisphere Branch of the W.J.C. executive, followed an exchange of communications between the W.J.C. and the Department of State.
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