Annotations for Countries: Ukraine

Prensa Latina of Cuba reports that Walter Rauff has been named head of the Chilean junta's Department to Investigate Communist activities. In World War II, says Prensa Latina, Rauff was a Nazi colonel who helped to kill 90,000 Jews. A former friend and colleague of Adolf Eichmann, Rauff headed a Gestapo organization in charge of gas chambers and special poison gas vans.

He also organized the evacuation of Jews from Kyiv to places where they were thrown into the Nazi gas chambers. Rauff was closely associated with Rudolph Hadrick, head of the Nazi Security Service who was executed by Czechoslovakian Patriots in 1942. The Chilean Junta's department investigating Communist activities was set up after the September coup and is staffed with extreme reactionary ex-Nazi and anti-Semitic elements. This from the Cuban news agency, Prensa Latina.