Home Secretary James Chuter Ede informed the House of Commons today that the Home Office has refused to extradite Dr. Wladislaw Dering to Poland to stand trial as a war criminal on the grounds that further investigation into the entire case is needed.
Dr. Dering, a Pole is charged by Poland, France and Czechoslovakia with having performed inhuman medical experiments on inmates in the Oswiecim death camp during the Nazi occupation.
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