Ludwig Zind, suspended German high school teacher who jumped bail when the Supreme Court turned down his appeal against conviction for publicly making anti-Semitic statements and defaming the murdered victims of Nazism, has arrived in Cairo, the German Press Agency reported here today.
Zind registered under the name of Helmut Volimer in one of Cairo’s main hotels, the report said. It added that the same ship which brought Zind to Alexandria carried the wife of Hans Eisele, Nazi concentration camp doctor who also fled to Egypt when he faced prosecution for war crimes.
Meanwhile, addressing the parliament of Baden-Wuerttemburg, Justice Minister Wolfgang Haussman declared that West Germany must respect the right of the individual, even if it leads to such incidents as the escape of Zind. Dr. Haussman assured the provincial Parliament that everything had been done and would be done to bring Zind to justice. He did assess a measure of blame to Offenburg State Attorney Robert Meyer for failing to find Zind before his case was heard by the Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, the provincial Minister of Culture, Dr. H. Storz, publicly warned that he would not tolerate the slightest trace of anti-Semitism in schools under his jurisdiction, nor would he condone attempts to gloss over the Hitler horrors. Zind was a high school teacher in Offenburg before his offenses were highlighted by student protests.
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