Leaders of 20 Jewish organizations associated in the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations met today with German Ambassador Karl Heinrich Knappstein at the office of the Conference, and expressed to him their “profound sense of moral outrage” over the German Government’s decision last November not to extend the statute of limitations beyond this coming May 8. Following this date, Nazi criminals against whom no judicial act has been taken will be immune to prosecution and punishment.
Members of the Conference of Presidents told Ambassador Knappstein that they were distressed at the failure of the German Government to see this issue as a moral one. The Ambassador was also asked to convey to his Government the dismay of Jewish leaders at the continued participation of German scientists in the development of weapons of mass destruction for the United Arab Republic.
“The prospect that mass murderers guilty of one of the most heinous crimes against humanity will escape justice and will be free to walk the streets of Germany after May 8 is abhorrent to the seared conscience of mankind,” Lewis H. Weinstein, chairman of the Conference of Presidents, stated.
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