Ambassador Carl Hermann Knocke, West Germany’s envoy to Israel, expressed sympathy with demonstrators who picketed his Embassy here today to protest against the light sentences meted out by West German courts to ex-Nazis who were involved in the massacre of 33,000 Jews in the Babi Yar ravine in the Ukraine in 1941. A delegation representing the demonstrators, members of the Israel Resistance Fighters and the War Victims League, was received by the Ambassador. He said he had read Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s poem “Babi Yar,” and fully appreciated their feelings, which he would relay to his Government In Bonn. He told the delegation that while everything was being done to punish those responsible for war crimes. It was difficult after 25 years to gather evidence.
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