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crimes in France. Serge was given this list by the
French Military Court.
This press conference is critical, as I have
been informed that on Wednesday the last step will be taken in committee that
could bring ratification of the French-German agreement before the Bundestag.
This is the Committee of Foreign Affairs of which Achenbach is a member. I know
that the Christian Democrats on the committee plan to vote against ratification
on a legal technicality. Achenbach will also vote against. If he can persuade
two members of the Social-Liberal coalition to go along with him, the committee
can table the accord for a long, long time. I must therefore attack Achenbach,
isolate him by exposing his opposition as based on self-protection, and thus
demonstrate the real need to bring to trial the perpetrators of the final
solution by revealing to the press and to the deputies glaring evidence of
Lischka's guilt. The young liberal faction of Achenbach's party is at my side
during the press conference, and will insist on Achenbach's resignation from
the Bundestag.
On Wednesday the agreement clears the hurdle of the
committee; as I had foreseen, the CDU and Achenbach voted no, but Achenbach had
not succeeded in making a single convert among the FDP and SPD.
Tuesday
I went to Frankfurt and told the press corps I was leaving at 3:30 for Cairo,
with the intention of transmitting the following message to the National
Assembly of Egypt:
I have come to Cairo first of all to ask
the Egyptian parliamentarians to remove Ernst Achenbach, the Liberal German
deputy, from the Parliamentary Association for European-Arab Cooperation.
This Association was created in Paris on March 23, 1974, by thirty-five
of the several thousand parliamentarians of Western Europe. Ernst Achenbach was
one of the thirty-five, one of the four Germans M.P.s who were then in Paris.
Today I have brought to Cairo the thorough study done by Professor
Joseph Billig of the role of Achenbach in the Final Solution of the Jewish
question in France from 1940 to 1943. During that time, Achenbach, head of the
political section of Hitler's embassy, cooperated actively with the Gestapo to
annihilate the Jews of France, of whom 100,000 were killed in the death
camps.
The presence of Achenbach – an accomplice in the genocide of
which the Jewish people were victims – is inadmissible within a body
representing European-Arab cooperation. If he is not removed as soon as
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