President of Czechoslovakia Antonin Novotny, addressing the United Nations General Assembly today, said that in West Germany “Nazism, whose alarming anti-Semitic provocations were only recently condemned by the world public opinion, is again raising its head.”
“High offices in the State apparatus of the German Federal Republic,” he maintained, “are occupied by a number of former Nazis who perpetrated serious crimes but escaped just punishment. Mr. Novotny then named Dr. Theodore Oberlaender, who resigned from the Bonn Cabinet last summer but is still a member of the West German Parliament. “Alarming also,” the Czech leader stated, “is the case of Dr. Hans Globke, the closest associate of Chancellor Adenauer. Globe continues to maintain his function of State Secretary although it was proved that he took an active part in massive massacres of millions of citizens, mostly Jews, from different countries of Europe.”
(In Bonn, it was announced today by the Prosecution Office that it closed the case against Dr. Theodore Oberlaender, former Minister for Refugee Affairs, after it has been established that the German Army unit in which he served as an officer during World War II did not commit the mass murder of Polish intellectuals and Jews in July 1941, in the Polish city, of Lwow, but that the murder was carried out by a special Einsatz Commando unit of the Nazi security services.)
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