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DATE: THURSDAY, May 17, 1990                   TAG: 9005170183
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-13   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: PARIS                                LENGTH: Short

E. GERMANY ASKS SYRIA TO RETURN NAZI FUGITIVE

East Germany asked Syria on Wednesday to extradite Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner, a deputy to Adolf Eichmann who was convicted of sending hundreds of thousands of Jews to German death camps.

Brunner, 78, who has been living in Damascus since 1955, is considered the most important Nazi criminal still at large. Syria has consistently denied his presence on its soil, although he has been photographed and interviewed at his home in Damascus.

The extradition request was presented in Damascus by East German Ambassador Karl-Heinz Lugenheim, said Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld. An East German Foreign Ministry spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed in East Berlin that Lugenheim had been instructed to request the extradition. The spokesman gave no further details. - Associated Press

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