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...West German law locksteps to its literal conclusion, a Nazi-hunter will go to jail while the convicted war criminal she tried to kidnap and spirit away to France will stay free. The hunted Nazi is Kurt Lischka, 65, the wartime Gestapo chief in Paris, who was tried in absentia by a French court in 1950 and sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in the deportation and extermination of 100,000 French Jews. The hunter is Beate Klarsfeld, 35, German-born Protestant wife of a French Jew, who moved to Paris in 1960 and has made a career...
That same year Beate also tried to kidnap Lischka, now a senior bank clerk in Cologne, and transport him to France. Under German law he can neither be extradited nor retried in a German court. The kidnap attempt, on a Cologne street, failed when Lischka's shouts frightened off Beate's four male accomplices...
Still, Beate may win in the end. She is likely to get probation if she promises to stop breaking the law. Lischka's future is bleaker. The trial, and Giscard's friendship with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, may have built up enough pressure to force the Bundestag to ratify a treaty it has sat on for three years. The treaty would permit the retrial in German courts of some 300 war criminals convicted in absentia by the French, including Lischka...
...says Beate Klarsfeld. "And it will be a long time, if ever, before Barbie gets extradited. There probably aren't any other Nazi war criminals like Barbie hiding in Bolivia or Peru today because they do not have to. The top Gestapo official for all of France, Kurt Lischka, lives openly as a respectable citizen in West Germany today...
CHARLES N. LISCHKA...
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