A request that the burial sites of victims of Nazi extermination in Germany be placed under international supervision was made today by the World Jewish Congress. The Congress urged the setting up of a supervisory body composed of representatives of nations whose citizens the victims were. This body should be in charge of maintaining the graves which should under no circumstances be entrusted to Germans, the proposal said.
The headquarters of the World Jewish Congress here sent letters to the governments of Belgium, France, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Soviet Russia, the Netherlands and Norway, appealing to them to support the proposal. In the communication to these governments, submitted through their respective ambassadors in London, the Congress challenged the plan that the Bergen-Belsen site be handed over to Lower Saxony. The communication recalled that Bergen-Belsen was the place where the Nazis established one of the most notorious concentration camps for Jews.
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