The Nation - News from April 11, 1988

Government officials and legal historians from around the world gathered in Boston to urge continued international support for the prosecution of Nazi war criminals and for war crimes legislation. Jurists from Australia, Canada, West Germany, France, Israel, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom joined American officials as speakers at the third International Conference on Holocaust and Human Rights Law. Bruce Einhorn, an attorney with the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations, said that time left to take action on war crimes is limited because both perpetrators and survivors of the Holocaust are getting old. Conference participants said that the sense that time is dwindling prompted the Canadian and Australian governments to set up anti-Nazi war crimes investigative units for the first time last year.