Bail had still not been accepted today for two Israelis arrested here last Friday on suspicion of attempted housebreaking and contravention of West German passport regulations. The men, Baruch Shur, 39, of Tel Aviv and Daniel Gorden 38, of Haifa, were picked up by police for allegedly trying to enter the apartment of Mrs. Heinrich Mueller, wife of a top Gestapo chief who disappeared in 1945.
Police said Shur and Gordon were suspected of being “Israeli agents.” Their attorney, Rolf Bossi, said that both had lost relatives in Nazi extermination camps and were trying to track down Mueller, but were acting on their own initiative and had no connection with any organization. Mr. Bossi said that he would file a complaint against the rejection by the Bavarian State prosecutor’s office of 15,000 marks ($3,700) offered in bail for his clients. He said that Nazi war criminals are released on bail, but apparently not Israelis.
Mueller was the superior of Adolf Eichmann in the Gestapo hierarchy. He has been reported dead but no conclusive evidence of that fact has ever been found either by Germans or by Jews hunting Nazi war criminals.
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