The World Jewish Congress has called upon U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy to firmly reject any demands by the Bonn Government for the freeing of German war criminals, it was announced here today.
The action came after recent reports disclosed that Dr. Thomas Dehler, Minister of Justice in the Western German Government, would ask for a general pardon for German war criminals now serving sentences in the U.S. war crimes prison at Landsberg. Dehler was quoted as saying that such sentences would probably not be passed now since “things are regarded more dispassionately today.”
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