The West German Interior Ministry official, Theodor Savaecke, charged with war crimes in Italy as a Nazi, was suspended from his office today. Disciplinary action against him was started.
Savaecke was accused by the Jewish Documentation Center in Italy of ordering the shooting of 16 Jews, including women and children in Milan. He also was accused of compelling Jews in North Africa to perform forced labor when he was an SS captain in that Axis-occupied area.
Savaecke’s chief in Tunisia during the war was former SS Col. Walter Rauff, who was arrested last December in Chile on a West German extradition warrant on which action is now pending at Santiago de Chile.
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