A Parliamentary inquiry into the verdict issued by the German court here against Philip Auerbach, former commissioner of the Bavarian Restitution Office, — which led to his suicide — was demanded today by Dr. Joseph Klibansky, Auerbach’s lawyer.
Dr. Klibansky claimed that the judges, three of whom were former members of the Nazis Party, failed to examine the evidence either impartially or thoroughly. He added that the real “bloodhound” in the Auerbach case was Fritz Koch, Bavarian Secretary of State in the Ministry of Justice. He denied that Auerbach died a convicted felon, since he had already appealed against the sentence and the appeal was pending.
The court. Dr. Klibansky said, had not passed an anti-Semitic sentence on Auerbach. Its members had done something far worse. They behaved as if they were paid officials defending the interests of the Bavarian Ministry of Justice. At the same time, Dr. Klibansky stated that Auerbach’s death should be a signal for full reconciliation between the German and the Jewish people.
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