Significant sections of the Italian press today featured articles opposing West Germany’s plans to cut off prosecutions of war criminals after May 8. An article in Avanti, influential Socialist daily, asked whether German agreement to let its statute of limitations go into effect would mean that even Hitler could go free if he should return after May 8.
Thousands of postcards calling upon the West German Parliament to extend the statute of limitations were being circulated around the country today by the Jewish Youth Federation of Italy. The cards are addressed to Dr. Eugen Gerstenmaier, president of the Bundestag, Germany’s lower house of Parliament, urging the house to extend the statute so that “Nazi crimes should not remain unpunished.”
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