The West German Parliament is expected to ratify next week the disputed Franco-German Nazi Retrials Treaty, If ratified, Nazi criminals convicted in absentia by French court will be liable to prosecution in West Germany.
Bonn Parliamentary sources said today that the treaty was originally due for debate this wee, but the Foreign affairs Committee, responsible for handling the treaty, did not have its report ready on time.
Among the handful of Nazi criminals who can in fact expect trial in west Germany is former Paris gestapo chief Kurt Lischks, who ware sentence after the war for his part in deporting thousands of French Jews to concentration camps in Eastern Europe.
Ratification of the treaty has been speeded up due to the efforts of Nazi hunter Beate Klarsfeld. Her trial last year in Cologne for the attempted abduction of Lischks brought adverse publicity for Free Democrat Ernast Achenbach. He was formerly a Nazi diplomat in Paris, and held up the treaty ratification process until he was fired last autumn.
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