Dr. Hans Globke, who served as State Secretary to former Shancellor Konrad Adenauer, testified at a Nazi war crimes trial here today that nothing could have been done against the Nazi murderers of Jews during the Hitler regime.
He testified at the trial of 10 former staff members of the Sachsenhausen murder camp. He also insisted that no one could then speak up against the crimes and that prosecutors would have been punished if they had tried to protest or act against the murder of Jews.
Dr. Globke, who was forced out of the Adenauer regime for his role in commentating on the Nuremberg race laws as a Nazi official, repeated earlier statements that he had not been told officially during his Nazi service about the crimes but that he had heard privately about the killings from soldiers returning on leave from the eastern front. He was a ranking official of the Nazi Interior Ministry.
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