HOLOCAUST: WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT NOW

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• Publication Date: May 1, 1984
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ARTICLE APPEARED NE'+1' YORK POST
ON DACE .' 1 May 1954
HOLOCAUST. R.emem-
brance Week (April 29?
May 5). when we mourn
the destruction of 6 mil-
Iion..Jews;.is an appro-
priate: time to reflect on
'By ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN
Brooklyn District Attorney
ployed ex-Gestapo chief of a Latvian concentra- There is still more to This investigation
Klaus Barbie (known as tion camp: an aide to be done. Only one man should be conducted by
the "butcher of Lyon" Adolf Eichmann the Hans Lipschis, a con- a special commission.
for the atrocities he Nazi minister of Croatia! centraiion camp guard authorized by Congress,
committed), shielded who signed the orders at Auschwitz - has ac- independent of the exec-
him from war crimes sending thousands of tually been deported. utive branch and with
,the consequences 'of trials in France and ..Jews to death camps; since 1974. Extensive, full subpoena powers. It
virulent anti-Semitism... helped hiim . flee to the instigator of a mur- unnecessarydelays are should seek to deter-
-World War .l safety in South America. derous pogram against partly responsible: if a mine how and why war
and other AIlied.governonly one helped abroad
ments to respond to the ' 'In addition.. the 'U.S.
plight.`. of European '.,brought Nazi war crimi-
Jewry signaled to Hitler- :pals to this , country.
that he could -carry cut Gustav Hilger. who as
Mass exterrn:tnation'Hitler's deputy foreign.
policies with impunity.:' minister, worked with
Now, '30 years later.--the mobile killing units
anti-Semitism .flouri-that murdered L5 mil-
shes worldwide, people., lion Jews in Eastern Eu-
assert that the Holo- rope, came here, thanks
caust is a fabrication, to the CIA, in 1945.
and public.figures in the., 'According to a former
U.S. suggest that Hitler. Justice Dept lawyer,
the Jews in Bucharest in .Nazi war criminal is a criminals were pro.
194.1 and members of U S.:citizen the govern- tected abroad, .got here,
special units in Eastern 'meat must first go to :and. were - permitted to
Europe. who. worked one court .to remove the remain virtually undi9-
under the Nazis ' in person's citizenship and :. turbed until 1970 -
slaughtering Jews.. then to another court to By taking these steps
Amazingly, for 30 get the person deported- the..J.S;-. can .. begin to,
years U.S. officials who In -all, seven seperate undo the shameful
learned of the criminal regal-steps are required deeds of = `the past. 'if
backgrounds of these- to deport a Nazi war Americans.. don't. star;-'
suspected Nazi war. criminal -who is a citi- for
l?_
criminals did nothing. zen `Legisl justice,wli o w il
ation should
Our country became -e be enacted .to speed up
haven for many of Hit-, the process by combin-
ler's henchmen. rag ' deportation and
As a member. of Con-. denaturalization pro-
gress, I uncovered this' ceedings and by acceler-
in 1974 and called for ating cases that involve
Jewish survival, we .pet government' in vigorous and corrective deportationalone.
must . ensure that this White. Russia, where governmental ' action.
country -actively op- more than a quarter of a. After years of intense
poses - anti-Semitism ; million Jews during pressure. the govern-
anywhere in the world ' World War II were mur- went finally agreed to
- so that no ' one can dered. Several of these make a systematic ef-
ever again believe that official collaborators fort to bring Nazi war
heinous acts against were reportedly person- .criminals to justice. At
Jews can be carried out ally involved in the kill- .my insistence the Immi-
again- ing of thousands of gration Service set up a
During World War rl, Jews. special unit to conduct
in which 176.000 Amer-: The U.S. also em- these proceedings and
leans gave their lives to plowed many Nazi war in 1979. this .unit was
step Hitler, the U.S. was criminals who came to transferred to the Jus-
basically indifferent to America According to. tice Dept's Criminal
the fate of European? the General Accounting Division. upgraded in
Jewry. Jews could have Office. Congress' watch- status and given more
fled from Hitler in jar a dog agency the State resources.
The U.S. should also
pressure other countries
to take action to bring to
justice Nazi war crimi-
nals living within their
borders. Over 1000 Nazi
war criminals allegedly
live in 'Canada Canada
should be urged to take
systematic action. as we
have against the Nazi
murderers living here.
Other countries,
particularly in . South
America, harbor war
criminals: For example,
r Dept Defense Dept-, Congress Passed le s- WalterRauff. a former
wanted numbers but m no country " theem. CIA and the FBI know- lation L_proposed to au-: SS colonel wanted for
The U.S., by insisting ing)y employed more thorize explicitly --the the mass gassing of
on tight immigration re- than 20 alleged Nazi war. deportation of Nazi war. 97,000 East European
strictions, allowed only criminals living in the criminals and to plug up Jews, lives in Chile. Jo-
a tiny handful to enter U.S. loopholes in our i=i- seph Mengele, Ausch-
this country, and Brit._ In addition, hundreds, gration laws. _ w'itz' murderous "doc-
am n would not allow- Possibly thousands, of The unspoken mes- tor," reportedly lives in
them to leave Europe other Nazi war crimi- sage of the 30 years of Paraguay. The U.S. gov.
ward the end of the war,- came on their own to the
the U.S. refused to bomb . U.Safter the war and
the railroad lines to found sanctuary here
Auschwitz. for 30 years. Suspected
After the war, the U.S. Nazi war criminals liv-
publicly prosecuted war .ing in the U.S. included
criminals at Nurem-' guards at Auschwitz,
berg, but at the same Dachau and Treblinka
time, secretly. collabo. and virtually every
rated with and pro other concentration
tected Nazi war crimi- camp:.the commandant
nals. U.S. Officials em-
was great. Today, more ' the State Dept brought
cognizant of U.S. war- in a large number of key
time indifference to officials of the Nazi Pup.
was that 'the U.S. con-
doned the horrors
perpetrated on the 6 mil-
lion Jews. By finally.
agreeing to deport Nazi
war criminals, the U.S
at last acknowledged
that the murder of Jews
cannot go unanswered,
and that those responsi-
ble for the destruction of
the 6 mfllion cannot go,
unpunished.
these countries to de-
port these murderers so
that they can be tried
and punished for their
crimes.
Finally, a thorough
examination of the se-
cret and disgraceful
role of the U.S. govern-
ment in aiding, protect-
ing and collaborating
with Nazi war criminals
after World War II is
needed.
STAT
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