Bonn Has Secret U.N. Nazi Lists
Nazi war crimes investigators said today that they have obtained confidential U.N. lists of the names of 30,000 Germans identified 40 years ago in connection with World War II atrocities.
Chief State Prosecutor Alfred Streim, the director of the Center for the Prosecution of Nazi War Crimes, said his office will begin evaluating the material soon to determine whether any of the suspects can be brought to trial.
The 80 lists were compiled between 1944 and 1948 by the U.N. War Crimes Commission.
Streim told Reuters in a telephone interview from Ludwigsburg that his office had tried since 1964 to get the lists from the United Nations but had repeatedly been turned down.
Third Party Involved
He said his office obtained microfilms of the lists last autumn from a third party whom he declined to identify.
Streim said the information will help fill gaps in the office’s research and allow prosecutors to decide whether any surviving suspects named by the War Crimes Commission had escaped prosecution.
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