The British Government was called on today to disassociate itself from the statement by its High Commissioner in Germany, Ivone Kirkpatrick, announcing willingness to reconsider all war crimes cases “in view of the changed circumstances” following the clemency extended by American authorities to convicted war criminals.
Rowland Landman, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Anglo-Jewish Association, told its council today in view of the repeated disclaimers by the present rulers of Germany of responsibility for the Hitler crimes, “whatever we may think about the question of (German) collective guilt, we must grow very suspicious if new attempts are being made to whitewash, not the German people as such, but the very people who committed these unspeakable atrocities. By clamoring for amnesty and the commutation of sentences against individual war criminals, the Germans show a solidarity with these criminals which bodes ill for the future,” he declared.
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