For the first time since the division of Germany, West Germany and the Communist regime in the East are cooperating in the acquisition of evidence relating to an alleged war criminal, Dr. Otto Schweinsberger, who is out on bail here on war-crime charges.
Officials of the Hesse Ministry of Justice today received photostatic copies of testimony allegedly proving that Dr. Schweinsberger halted legal proceedings in 1942 against an army official accused of participation in the murder of 75 Jews.
Dr. Schweinsberger was arrested last December, after he had booked airplane passage for Cairo, following the war-crime charges made against him by the East German Committee for German Unity. After his arrest, the public prosecutor at Frankfurt filed charges accusing him of slandering Jews and publicly condoning Nazi crimes. Until his arrest, he was chief prosecutor for the Hessian Ministry of Justice. He has been suspended from that post and is being kept under police surveillance.
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