West German Ambassador Klaus Schuetz and notables from Hamburg Thursday presented to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Institute a list of 6000 Hamburg Jews murdered by the Nazis. The list was compiled after meticulous research and will form part of the Yad Vashem Holocaust annals. Demonstrators outside protested at the delays and filibusters in current Nazi war crimes trials in West Germany.
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