Nazi past haunts Bonn ‘shadow cabinet’

SHADES OF THE PAST

By MAX REICH
P.T. Correspondent

ew documentary evidence of
N responsibility for Nazi crimes
—involving Dr. Hans Globke, a
number of state secretaries of
the Adenauer government and a
number of judges of the su-
preme court dealing with ‘‘poli-
tical offenders’? — was disclosed
at an international press con-

terence in Berlin on March 21.
Stil more
evidence has
been found to
show that
Globke co-op-
erated, as
. early as June
1933, with
Freisler (ex-
ecuted in Nur-
: -emberg as a
war cama. in destroying the
rule of law in Prussia, which, by
area and population represented

three-fifths of Germany.

_It was -Globke, who submitted

_ council.

for the existing legal system, the
lawlessness and arbitrariness of
nazi “law”, deriving from the
will of the Fuehrer.

Globke comments _ gleefully
that the new law promulgated
by him once and for all does
away with parliamentary prac-
tice and that the ‘‘law’’ based on
the omnipotence of Hitler will
last for eternity and be immut-
able.

Having — in his own words
— destroyed democratic proce-
dures, Globke then promulgated
what he himself called ‘‘the
first law in which .the idea of
the Fuehrer is unequivocally ex-
pressed“.

This law created a new state
Globke then exhorted
the new state conneil to. carry
the Fuehrer idea into the popula-
tion and arouse understanding
and enthusiasm for it’’.

Just as Globke’s race laws
later laid the foundation for the
persecution and _ extermination

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of the Jews, his law of June se
1933 ‘“‘legalized’’ all the brutal-
ities of the Gestapo in their
Berlin headquarters.

Today, Globke is one of 25
state secretaries in the Adenauer
government. Ministers come and
go, but the state secretaries stay.
It is actually the ‘‘shadow ca-
binet’’ of state secretaries that
wields the real power of govern-
ment. And of this ruling circle of
25, 15 have an incriminating nazi

past. Here are some of them:
*

* * :
STATE SECRETARY HOPF is

all-important in Bonn’s war min-
istry. A member of the nazi
party from March 1, 1934, he
later became a leading Gestapo
official in Stettin.

A big file has been found of
Hopf’s activities. He set up a
network of informers; in signed
circulars to his spies, he prom-
ised to treat their reports on
their neighbors confidentially,
and urged them to watch out
particularly for communists and
social democrats.

Hopf had what appears to be
a personal grudge against .the
worker, Franz Prokorenko. Hopf
personally ordered Prokoreriko to
the Sachsenhausen concentration
camp, where Prokorenko perish-
ed. ‘

After the occupation of Czecho-
slovakia, Hopf was made district
chief of Zlin, where he _terror-
ized the Bata workers. Now he
is the man to be ‘‘on the trig-

| ger’’ if West Germany gets nu-

clear weapons.
* * oo
FRANZ THEDICK, now iicad:
of the ministry on All-German

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the suffering and death of tens
‘of thousands of Belgians, includ-
ing the 25,000 deported Belgian
ews.
* * *

DR VIALOINS, state secretary
in the ministry for aid to under-
developed countries. Under Hit-

~ ler he bossed the eastern terri-

ories, with administration of
ghettoes in the Baltic countries
and Byelorussia in his hands.

He ordered he exploitation of
the labor of Jews and, after
their murder, the removal of
jewellery and gold teeth for the
disposal of his office.

* * *

DR WESTRICK is state se-
cretary in the ministry of eco-
nomics. Documents found re-
cently prove that he played a
prominent role in plundering the
ocupied countries in south eas!

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* *

PROF. HETTLAGE, the dele-
gate of the West German govern-
‘ment or Moritan Union (the
European mining combine),

pl undered

the West
countries for the nazis.

Despite claims by West Ger-
man Justice Minister Dr. Bucher
that . only two — incriminated
judges remain in office, it has
been charged by Prof. Albert
Norden, member of the National
Council of the National Front,
that three-quarters of the 11,600
West German judges were nazi
members.

Of the 49 judges of the sup-
reme court dealing with political
‘offenders’, 40 had been active,
mainly in leading positions, in
the nazi state. gsome are plain
murderers and should be behind
bars. For example:

European

JUDGE RUDOLF WEBER-
LORTSCH, was deputy chief of
police in occupied Kattowice.
From January 1942 he was as-
sistant to the police and SS
chief in Nikolayev on the Black
Sea. There he participated in
the extermination of Jews -and
Ukrainians. ;

Later that year he became
head of the administration and
justice office in occupied Nor-
way, under the police and SS
leader there. He is responsible
for the execution of Norwegian
patriots and the deportation of
1,700 Norwegian Jews.

co * *
JUDGE DR. WALTER ZINSER,
See NAZI, page 11

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