Dr. Joachim Prinz, president of the American Jewish Congress, reiterated charges today that officials of documentation centers administered by the United States are “unreasonably” limiting access to vital materials bearing on the guilt of Nazi war criminals. The principal centers are at Alexandria, Va., and West Berlin.
The charges had been voiced by Dr. Prinz last week, when he returned from a visit to West Germany, and denied by a State Department spokesman. Today, he cited as evidence of the authenticity of his allegation the fact that representatives of the World Jewish Congress, AJC and students at the Free University of West Berlin were denied the opportunity to search those archives. Recently, he said, a number of American civic groups were rebuffed when they sought to verify through the archives information about a German cultural attach, stationed in this country, who was suspected of having been a Hitler Storm trooper during the Nazi period.
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