The International Committee at The Hague, which has been investigating wartime atrocity charges against Dr. Theodor Oberlaender, West German Minister for Refugees, has decided to dissolve itself because of “changed circumstances,” it was learned here today. Dr. Oberlaender has been under fire for months on charges of complicity in the massacre during World War II of Jews in Lemberg, in what was then Nazi-occupied Poland.
The changed circumstances were understood to refer to the decision of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s Christian Democratic party, of which Dr. Oberlaender is a member, to make its own investigation.
Meanwhile, the administrative committee of the Bundestag, lower house of Parliament, decided today to defer decision on the lifting of the parliamentary immunity enjoyed by Dr. Oberlaender. The committee’s vote to postpone a decision on the case was based on the fact that the Federal prosecutor is now probing into the charges against Oberlaender.
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