Samuel Silkin, a 30-year-old Jewish lawyer, son of Britain’s Minister for Town and Country Planning, was selected today as chief defense counsel for Nazi Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Mannstein who is to face a British military trial at Hamburg next week.
The main indictments against the Nazi Field Marshall are connected with his activities during the German occupation of the Ukraine during which huge massacres of Jews occurred in practically all Ukrainian cities and towns. Silkin was selected as his defender by contributors to a defense fund for von Mannstain set up in Britain. Winston Churchill has contributed one hundred dollars to this defense fund.
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