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Engineer Who Left Describes
German Nuclear Work in Egypt
MUNICH (JTA)—Large groups
of German scientists and engi
neers are working on non-con-
ventional armament programs in
Egypt, thereby “’violating Ger
many’s basic law” which forbids
postwar Germany to undertake
any actions “designed to disturb
tiie peace or the full co-existence
of nations or to prepare war of
aggression,” a noted British jour
nalist, Sefton Delrner, reported
here this week after a lengthy
interview with a German engi
neer who has just resigned from
the Egyptian projects.
The projects employ “leading
Nazis who are helping Game!
Abdel Nasser with a plan to liq
uidate the survivors of Hitler’s
terror and the State they built
in Palestine,” Mr. Delrner stated.
The Brritish correspondent,
who had acted in the same ca
pacity 30 years ago when he fol
lowed Hitler’s career intimately,
had just interviewed an engineer
who had insisted on anonymity.
The engineer was, until two
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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
Vol. XXXVIII
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1963
5-Month‘Cheimno Trial’Ends; chief of Israel's Security Services
6 Imprisoned lor Murder Holes _. _ , . ,
Resigns; Germany Is the Issue
BONN (JTA)—Sentences rang
ing from 15 years at hard labor
to verdicts of nominal guilt with
out penalty were handed down
Saturday by a jury court here in
the five-month trial of 12 form
er SS guards accused of parti
cipation in the murder of 180,000
Jewish men, women and chil
dren in the Chelmno concentra
tion camp during the years 1941
to 1943.
Gustav Laabs, 60, and Alois
Haefele, 69, each received terms
of 15 years of hard labor. Walter
Burmeister, 56, war given a 13-
year term. Kurt Moebius, 67, was
sentenced to eight years’ impris
onment. Karl Heinl, 50, received
a seven-year term. Ernest Burm
eister, 63, received a three-and-
a-half-year penalty.
Herbert Schroeder, the jury
court president, also announced
that while the other six defend
ants were found guilty of com
plicity in the mass murders, the
court did not impose any sen
tences on them, in accordance
with a provision of West Ger
man penal law. Under that pro
vision, sentence was not imposed
because their crimes were not re
garded as sufficiently grave to
merit the minimum three-year
prison term for such crimes. The
trial lasted about six months. The
Chelmno camp was located near
Lodz in occupied Poland.
Laabs was charged with mur
dering 100,000 Jews in gas vans
and with personally shooting
survivors. Walter Burmeister was
accused of beating Jews and with
fooling Jews in incoming trans
ports as to their exact fate. Hae-
fele’s assignment was to fool
Jews about their fate and with
shooting Jews personally. Moe
bius frequently forced Jews into
the gas vans. Heinl was charged
with using a leather whip and
a club on the doomed Jews.
Ernst Burmeister supervised herd
ing of Jews into death vans and
either killed or assisted in the
killing of sick slave laborers.
Those not punished in the ver
dicts were Martin Meier, an as
sistant gas van driver; Walter
Bock, a guard who forced Jews
into the gas vans; Wilhelm Heuc-
kelbach, Friedrich Maderholz,
Wilhelm Schulte and Anton Meh-
ring.
Fight Reported
Arrested in Moscow
For Baking Matzoth
LONDON, (JTA)—Eight Jews
have been arrested in Moscow
during the past few days for
baking matzoth in their homes,
the Daily Telegraph reported
here this week from Moscow.
The newspaper also reported
that “news of the arrests reach
ed Jewish authorities in Britain.”
The report indicated that Mos
cow police also confiscated the
machinery used for baking and
cutting the matzoth and that the
arrested Jews were charged
with “illegal manufacture of
foodstuffs and speculation.” The
arrests were reported to have
caused widespread concern
among Moscow’s Jewish popula
tion. It was recalled that on
March 16, Chief Rabbi Yehuda
Levine of Moscow announced to
his congregation that the state
bakeries would for a second year
not bake matzoth.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prime
Minister David Ben-Gurion, at
tending his first Cabinet meeting
in a month, recently announced
to the Cabinet that he has ac
cepted the resignation of the chief
of Israel’s security services—an
official whose name is never dis
closed.
The Premier told the Cabinet
and, later, a special meeting of
Parliament’s Security and For
eign Affairs Committee, that the
resignation of the security chief
was due to the fact that the Prime
Minister did not accept the secur
ity chief’s “political evaluations”
of recent events in connection
with the revelations concerning
the employment of West German
scientists on ncnconventional
projects being conducted in
Egypt. A temporary chief of the
Israel security services has been
named, Mr. Ben-Gurion said.
Mr. Ben-Gurion explained that
the security chief resigned after
he was told by the Prime Min-
WALTHAM, Mass. (JTA)—Dr.
Abraham L. Sachar, president of
Brandeis University, Monday said
he had received almost unanim
ous support from his board of
trustees in his action of reprim
anding a faculty member who
told Brandeis students during the
height of last fall’s Cuban crisis
that she hoped that America
would be defeated and shamed
before the world in the event of
war with Cuba.
The reprimanded faculty mem
ber is Dr. Kathleen Gough
Aberle, a British anthropologist,
who submitted her resignation
earlier this month. Her husband.
Dr. David Aberle, an American
citizen who is also a professor of
anthropoligy, tendered his resig
nation along with hers. The
Brandeis president said he rep
rimanded Mrs. Aberle “not be
cause she expressed a dissenting
opinion, but because of the reck
lessness and the irresponsibility
of her language.”
The Student Council voted 8
to 7 to censure Dr. Sachar for
"violating academic freedom."
The 22-member faculty who
voted on the matter admitted
that Dr. Sachar “had the right to
disassociate (he university” from
Mrs. Aberle’s speech to students;
however, it approved a prepared
statement by the Faculty Senate
terming Dr. Sachar’s reprimand
“an error of judgment that could
be interpreted as an infringe
ment of academic freedom.”
Dr. Sachar, in nis statement.
ister that the latter disagreed
with his “political assessment.”
Voicing his high esteem of the se
curity chief’s past services, the
Premier praised the high official
for “excellent work done to
gether during the years.” The
Cabinet’s approval of the resig
nation was not necessary, since
the post is within the jurisdiction
of the Premier’s office.
At the Cabinet session, Mr
Ben-Gurion reviewed the issue of
the German scientists employed
by Egypt as well as the question
of publishing further details on
this entire matter. A spokesman
for the Cabinet said after the
meeting that Mr. Ben-Gurion had
reiterated that he stands behind
all actions taken until now as
well as behind the statements on
the issue made until now by the
Foreign Ministry.
The latter assertion was under
stood to constitute additional ref
utation of earlier intimations that
Foreign Minister Golda Meir
said: “As president of the univer
sity, I had the responsibility to
reprimand her.” He pointed
“with pride” to Brandeis’ record,
during its 15 years of existence,
in regard to faculty freedom. He
noted that the very vote by those
members of the faculty who dis
agreed with him on the Aberle
issue “vindicates our contention
that the faculty is not only com
petent in their fields of special
ization but are independent in
spirit and judgment.”
NEW YORK (JTA)—One con
gregation in Brooklyn was ex
pelled from membership in the
United Synagogue of America
this weekend for refusing to drop
the practice of playing bingo for
fund-raising purposes, according
to an announcement by George
Maislen, president of the United
Synagogue. Immediately after the
announcement, a second congre
gation, in suburban Queens, voted
to discontinue bingo. A third con
gregation on warning against
bingo is still considering the is
sue
The United Synagogue, which
represents 764 Conservative con
gregations in the United States
and Canada, had voted a resolu
tion at its convention in 1961,
might resign. Rumors of differ
ences inside the Government,
over the policy to be followed In
the case of the German scientists
at work in Egypt, have persisted
here during the weekend. It was
alleged that Mr. Ben-Gurion had
transmitted to the Cabinet his
dissatisfaction over the “danger
ous” turn In Israeli policy from
anti-Egyptian to anti-German.
Mr. Ben-Gurion tried Satur
day to dissipate reports about a
“near crisis” in the Government.
He denied all press reports which
indicated possible resignations
from the Government But even
today, reports still persisted that
Mrs. Meir supports the anti-Ger
man policy—while Mr. Ben-Gur
ion opposes that line, and that
she might resign.
A communique issued by the
Premier’s office Monday stressed
that Mrs. Meir’s statement on the
German scientists issue in Parlia
ment last week had been fully
approved beforehand by the
Premier and that there was no
foundation for reports about a
split in opinion between Mr. Ben-
Gurion and Mrs. Meir. The com
munique also stated that the
Government has no intention to
publish a “white paper” about
the work of the German scien
tists in Egypt.
Mr. Ben-Gurion’s statement,
supporting Mrs. Meir’s stand,
was thought necessary in view
of the fact that he was on leave
when the entire issue became
public. He remained on leave
during a debate on the issue in
Parliament and during two Cab
inet meetings where the matter
was discussed.
forbidding the use of “any form
of fund-raising not in keeping
with the spirit of Judaism.” The
measure was aimed primarily at
forbidding bingo.
Last week, according to Mr.
Maislen, the United Synagogue
put three congregations on final
notice against continuing bingo
games. The Jewish Center of
Kings Highway, in Brooklyn,
refused to heed the order, and
was therefore expelled from
membership. A general meeting
of the congregation of the Rose-
dale Jewish Center, in Long la-
land, voted Sunday, by a bal
lot of 123-2, to discontinue M’y
Immediately. The third congrega
tion warned, also in
is expected to make a «m1 de
cision on the matter weak.
. . . on the UJA Agenda
THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK. Scholars and religious func
tionaries in Israel are actively aided by the Joint Distribution
Committee, with funds from the United Jewish Appeal. Now
observing its 25th consecutive year of fund-raising, the UJA
is a major beneficiary of welfare fund and federation cam
paigns now underway in Atlanta, Savannah, Tampa, St. Peters
burg and other Southern communities.
Sachar Reprimands 6 Prof'
For Anti-American Talk
United Synagogue Expels
Congregation for Playing Bingo