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Some of the most notorious Nazi war criminals have escaped justice because West German judges have permitted unconscionably long trial delays. That is the accusation made by Hermann Langbein, 60, an Austrian Jew who survived Auschwitz and is now secretary of the International Concentration Camp Committee, which documents and tries to secure punishment for Nazi crimes. In the committee's quarterly bulletin Langbein charges that West German judges have gone out of their way to accept defense excuses for postponement, often causing trials to be delayed for a decade or more. Items...
...nervous to testify reliably, making it necessary to round up corroborative testimony. If witnesses abroad are unable to travel to testify in Germany, a number of delicate international negotiations must be carried out before a German investigating judge can journey to, say, Poland or Israel and question witnesses there. Langbein suggests that there are also other factors at work. Says he: "An Austrian or German was much more likely, by inadvertence or bad luck, to become a jailer than to be inside a concentration camp. The public reaction to the sight of a war criminal in the dock is therefore...
...offer substantive evidence, but said only that a telephone company investigator had told him that his line had been tapped. Another telephone company spokesman, Fred Lang-bein, said, however, that he had checked Boggs' phone at the time and that there had been no evidence of wiretapping. (Langbein noted that the phone company had handed over a record of Boggs' long-distance calls to the Justice Department under subpoena in a case involving a Government contract scandal...
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