A demand that Rudolf Hess, once Hitler’s deputy, be kept in prison, was voiced today by the Israeli Organization of Partisans, Fighters Against Nazism and Survivors of Concentration Camps.
A statement by the group deplored the possibility that Hess, last of the Nuremberg Tribunal defendants still in jail, reportedly will be released because of his declining health. Any action to void imposition of the life sentence on Hess, the statement added, would “encourage neo-Nazis and anti-Semites the world over and would constitute the final burial of the barbaric Nazi past.”
Reports from Germany have indicated that the Bonn Government wants Hess released from West Berlin’s Spandau Prison, a facility under the supervision of the four principal, wartime allies–the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union.
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