Alleged Aide To Eichmann
(N Z.P.A -Reuter—Copyright) VIENNA, June 11. The Austrian Justice Ministry has announced the arrest of Franz Slavik, aged 48, believed to have been Adolf Eichmann's accomplice to the killing of a young Hungarian 'Jew. who in 1944 was beaten to death for stealing cherries. The killing was recently brought up in the Eichmann trial when witnesses told the Israeli Court that Eichmann killed the youngster with his own hands to an S S. office in Budapest. In 1949 Slavik was sentenced to five and a half years’ gaol for other war crimes. The Ministry said Slavik was a former member of Eichmann’s Budapest staff which was charged with the rounding up of Hungarian Jews for annihilation to the Nazi gas chambers. Slavik, an employee of a Vienna transport firm, is suspected of having taken part in the killing of the Jewish youngster, the Ministry said. In 1949 Slavik was sentenced by an Austrian Court to five years and a half for other war crimes. The charges against him also included the killing of the Jewish boy but proceedings on this case were suspended for lack of evidence.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29537, 12 June 1961, Page 5
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