The American war crimes court which recently finished trying some 20 top Nazi aides today convicted two of them of helping in the extermination of 6,000,000 European Jews. The convicted Germans are Gustav Steengracht Von Moyland, ex-diplomat in the German Foreign Office, and General Gottlieb Berger, former head of the Gestapo main office.
Von Moyland, who organized the Nazi “Office for Anti-Jewish Action Abroad,” was found guilty of assisting in the deportation of Hungarian Jews to German death camps and in blocking Allied attempts to rescue some 5,000 Jewish children who were ultimately murdered. The court’s Judgment, which will require four days to read, highlights the fact that Von Moyland tried to use the rescue offer as part of an anti-British propaganda plot. The tribunal declared Berger to be guilty of a “callous and brutal policy” in relation, to the Jews.
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