A former officer of Hitler’s Elite Guard, who succeeded the notorious Hans Eichmann as head of the Nazis’ Jewish bureau in Budapest and continued deportation of Hungarian Jews to the death camps, has been rearrested in Frankfurt, Germany, on evidence supplied in part by a man who was assassinated in Tel Aviv last month.
Word was received here that the Frankfurt prosecutor had ordered the arrest of Hermann Kromay, Eichmann’s successor, on charges of preparation of murder. Kromay was once cleared by a denazification court but the new action against him followed submission of testimony by Dr. Dr. Israel Kastner, wartime leader of Hungarian Jewry, who was slain in Tel Aviv last month.
Dr. Kastner had not completed submission of all the evidence he had assembled against Kromay, it was disclosed and it had been thought that following Dr. Kastner’s death, Kromay would again be free.
The work was completed, however, by Joel Brand, who was a member of the war-time Jewish Rescue Committee in Hungary. Mr. Brand is now in Frankfurt assisting the German authorities.
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