The Federal Republic of Germany has turned down a request that it furnish financial aid to the defense of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi specialist in the extermination of Jews, who will face trial next March in Israel.
An announcement that such a request has been made, and that the suggestion has been rejected, was made here yesterday by the legal section of the Foreign Ministry. A spokesman for the Ministry said the request was made by Dr. Robert Servatius, of Cologne, attorney for Eichmann. “The case does not come under the legal protection ordinarily accorded German citizens abroad,” the spokesman said.
Dr. Servatius said today, after his request for aid was denied by the Foreign Ministry, that he may ask the Israeli Government for help in the financing of Eichmann’s defense. He stated that his estimate of the cost of the defense was about 100,000 deutschemarks ($24,000), aside from his own fee which, he said, was “open, for the time being.”
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