Judge Simon H. Rifkind, who until recently was adviser on Jewish affairs to the United States command in Germany, said today that “as long as German police are used in centers for Jewish displaced person, there will be violence.”
In a letter to Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of the World Jewish Congress, Judge Rifkind recalled that he had recommended to U.S. military authorities that they recruit and train displaced Jews to act as a supplementary police force in the Jewish DP centers. He lauded the order of Gen. Joseph T. McNarney barring German police from entering Jewish camps under any circumstances.
The Jewish War Veterans, in a telegram to President Truman, said that the use of German police against the displaced Jews is “an affront to decency and humanity.” The organization urged the President to order the withdrawal of German guards from the Jewish centers.
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