The Association of Jewish Persecutees in Austria filed a protest today with the West German officials against a proposal to limit prosecution of former Nazi war criminals to so-called major offenders.
The proposals is incorporated in the extension of the deadline for the prosecution of Nazi war criminals recently approved by the West German Parliament.
In letters to Justice Minister Karl Weber and Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier, the association called the proposal the equivalent of a “hidden amnesty.” The association said that the crimes involved were murder or acts leading to murder.
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