European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday june 3, 1991the stars and stripes. A Page 3holocaust survivors to testify tuesday. Miami apr holocaust survivors. Yll Point an accusing Finger at a nazi death Camp commandant on tuesday when a takes their testimony in preparation for his War crimes trial. Now 79, Joscht Schwammberge was an is lieutenant who commanded Camps in Poland where thousands of inmates mostly jews were interned and died during world War ii. Lie hid in Argentina for 40 years hut was found and imprisoned in Stuttgart Germany. His trial there scheduled for this summer could be the last major nazi War crimes hearing of its Type As time takes its toll on victims and suspects alike. A statement from German prosecutors said Schwammberge is suspected of personally killing at least 50 jewish inmates and assisting in the murders of at least 3,377 others from 1941 to 1944. He has been called cruder than Adolf Eich Pfann known As the architect of the nazis a final solutions a plan for exterminating jews. Eichmann was executed in 1962. A the difference Between him and Adolf Eichmann was that Eichmann was a Technocrat who stayed at a desk and wore gloves to keep the blood Olf a said rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in i of Angeles. was a ruthless murderer who Hada bad Day when lie did t see blood chiefs hid. Stanley and Gebot Largo Are among Only 1 15 survivors of 28.000 jews who lived m the polish ghetto and labor Campot Prem vol when Schwammberge took command. I hey were invited to testify tuesday at the German consulate in Miami. Schwammberge will not be present but att i listening to the evidence the court could Call the gels to testify at his trial in Stuttgart. A it is not pleasant to return Back to the times and remind yourself it is not pleasant to lace him a a said the 78-Ycar-old Igel. Quot but this is a ease once in a million. There Are not Many people left this age who would be Able to relate the direct . Similar hearings already were held in. New Yolk and los Angeles and one is scheduled Lor Toronto. A the threw men women and children into a Bonfire even if they were Only wounded Quot flier said. A file smashed Heads of children against a Wall and set vicious dogs to rip the body parts of Nimberger disappeared Quot alter escaping from an Allied prison Camp while awaiting War crimes trials. Until lie was tracked Down in p>s7 in Argentina and later extradited to Germany nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal listed Schwammberge As one of the world s 10 most wanted War criminals. Schwammberge is accused of murder and Recesso re to murder m Krakow. Milec and to a Dove As Well As in or pm vol. Lie laces possible Hie m prison. Unlike some a accused War criminals Schwamn Berger does not dispute . Only the Ivi Ridic a Tion of a German court to try him Tor crimes in Poland. He admits participating m Only one killing under unexplained a special German prosecutors said. I Here is no doubt about his complicity in the minds of the gels. A lie killed people. He beat them up. I be murdered them. He Hung said survived because lie was ordered to teach horseback Riding to Schwammberge Anil ins Wile. Mrs. Igel 7 i. Who cooked and cleaned Tor the nazis said the commandant always carried his machine gun and kept his y German Shepherd Prince by his Side. Man arrested in killing of British student Boston up a a suspected in the disappearance of a i3ritish College student was arrested saturday hours after a body believed to be hers was found in the trunk of a car at a London Airport the Fri and British authorities said. Curtis a. Howard �?��24, Wais being a Ayling questioned in the disappearance of Catherine Ayling a College student in Crewe England whom British newspapers have described As Howard s Girlfriend. Howard of the Boston area was arrested at 4 40 . At an apartment in the City a Roxbury Section said special agent William Mcmullin a spokesman Tor the of big a Boston office. A we Are in Contact with British authorities in connection with a murder vesti gation they Are conducting Quot said Mcmullin who said he had no further details of the investigation in England. Howard a arrest followed the discovery saturday morning of the body of a woman in the trunk of a car Jett m a Long term parking lot at Gatwick Airport outside London said police in Sussex county England. Sussex police said in a statement that of Vatican urges . Bishops to soften letter on sexism by Clare Pedrick the Washington Post Vatican City the. Vatican has urged . Bishops to tone Down a draft document that Speaks out against sexism in the roman Catholic Church and chills for. More decision to braking roles for women. Six . Bishops were called to the Vatican to discuss their 40-Pagc draft for a pastoral letter on the Issue of women in the Church and in society. The group said this past week the document provoked a expressions of concern a a among Vatican offi trips., a. A. The . Delegation speaking after the two Day session with Vatican officials and Bishops from five continents pledged to proceed with its project to. Produce a document on the role of women in the Church. The Bishops Quot said they were unlikely to abandon the Basic Tenet of the paper that sexism needs to be fought both inside and outside the Church and Halwo Moji should have More official recognition. A a we re As full steam ahead As its possible to be a said Bishop Matthew Lark of Rochester . But the . Church leaders also agreed they would give careful consideration to the criticisms made by the Vatican. A we Are free to pay no attention at All a archbishop Daniel e. Pilarczyk of Cincinnati chairman of the . National Council of Catholic Bishops said at a news conference in Ronie on wednesday. A but that is certainly not a very prudent or intelligent Way of proceeding a not because we think they Are going to hit us Over the head witly a Hammer at the Vatican but simply because there was a Chance of getting input and we Are grateful for the meeting was called at the request of Cardinal Joseph . Head of the congregation fur the doctrine of the Faith the Vatican department that control s t h e t e a he ill it f h e7 Ca t h o i i c. Church. Wii plane crashes near crowd Antioch Calif. A an air plane crashed about 10 Teet away trom spectators at a Charity air show saturday hut no one was seriously Hurt officials said. Pilot Ken Burgess 58. Of Antioch and his passenger Robert g. Smith general manager of California Delta newspapers walked away from the crash. But the acc Dent destroyed the Vintage world War ii divers were making a routine Check of the lot at 10 24 . When they found the vehicle which police throughout England had been socking As part of their investigation into Ayling s disappearance. Positive identification of the body believed to that of Ayling was expected Exann nation by a Coroner police said. Ayling. Who had been reported missing earlier in the w cock w As a College student in Crewe in Cheshire county England about 150 Miles Northwest of London. Her disappearance and the search Lor Howard made front Pagerie Dalmes in Britain. Mcmullin said Howard had not been charged in the slaying. Lie said . Authorities were holding Howard on a warrant issued March 22 in . District court in Boston charging him with submitting a false passport application Quot basically what happened is in february of this year lie application Tor a passport in Boston in the Nameny Kevin Dion Bell and supplied a birth record. We obtained a Ceil lid copy of a certificate of death lot one Kevin Dion Bell who died at the age of 9,&Quot Mcmullin said. Mcmullin would not say. What led a Thun tics to the Roxbury apartment. Anil said he did not know w Hose Home it was. Howard was Bevnii held pending a hearing monday Belore a . Magistrate in Boston Mcmullin said. And attempts to have him resumed to Britain . Initiated at that hearing. In. Propeller Plain Quot it just would t lift. I Don t know what it was a Burgess said. The plane s w ing grazed Spectator Sci Ald Pierce cutting his hand. The plane crashed within it feet of where Pierce and five other people were sitting. The plane was one of sew Oral Vintage aircraft exhibited at the country family fair which is held each year at tack Roddy ranch South of Antioch to raise Money for a local charitable foundation. The Federal aviation administration is investigating the Accident no picnic these three Lockheed corp. Workers at Cape canaveral ma., were in no mood for a picnic on saturday after Nasa scrubbed the scheduled launch of space until at least wednesday. Jerry Kathka left Nick Seaman Center and Phil Hudgins Are waiting for the repair or replacement of a faulty navigation unit
