The West German Government has “an inescapable duty and responsibility” to take all possible measures to prevent its nationals from collaborating in Egypt” In aggressive designs against the State of Israel, against the Jewish people and against humanity itself,” the World Jewish Congress declared in a statement issued here today.
The statement said that Jews throughout the world were shocked by the disclosure that a large number of West German scientists and technicians were now working for the Egyptian Government on production of nuclear and other weapons intended for mass destruction attacks.
The statement added that there could be no question that the development and production of such weapons of mass annihilation were designed to serve the repeatedly-declared aim of the present Egyptian leaders to destroy Israel. The statement noted that a large proportion of the 2, 000, 000 Jews in Israel were the victims of Nazi Germany’s barbarous onslaught against the Jewish people in which 6, 000, 000 European Jews were slaughtered.
The statement asserted that this crime of genocide was made possible and permitted through the technical knowledge and active aid by German scientists obedient to the demands of Hitler. The presence and work of West German scientists in Egypt must be seen against the background of the persistent anti Israel and anti-Jewish propaganda campaign carried out from Cairo with the advice and assistance of many Nazi war criminals who escaped Justice and found refuge in Egypt where they encourage and support neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic movements in many countries, the World Jewish Congress said.
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