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Auschwitz-the process starts with a dramatic appeal
In Detmold is a former security guard of the concentration camp of Auschwitz before court. The charge: accessory to murder in 170,000 and cases. As a prelude, called a Survivor of the Nazi death camp of the accused to testify.
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Trial against Ex-SS man has begun
Today, 94-Year-old accused should in 1943 and 1944 as a member of the SS-Totenkopfsturmbanns in the main camp of the concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz have been used. The public Prosecutor’s office accuses him aid, among other things, in mass shootings and the “selection” of concentration camp inmates. With its use as a guard, he had to Work the machinery contributed, it is said in the indictment.
“We are both soon before the highest judge”
The procedure began with the emotional appeal of an Auschwitz Survivor. “Mr. H., we are almost the same age and we are soon both in front of the highest judge. I would like to ask you to give us the historical truth-telling,” said the also 94-Year-old witness, after he about his terrible experiences in Auschwitz had been reported. There were, according to the substitute private Prosecutor 35 of his Relatives from the Nazis murdered. “You speak in this place about what you and your comrades have done or have experienced,” he demanded of the accused to testify.
International Attention
The accused has in advance granted, in the main camp used to have been involved in Tötungshandlungen but denied. Dozens of journalists from home and abroad, as well as former concentration camp inmates were to Prozessauftakt in the North Rhine-Westphalian city of traveled.
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Interview with Auschwitz-Surviving Leon Schwarzbaum
Because of the great interest found the trial of the district court of Detmold in the hall of the chamber of industry and Commerce. For the process are first twelve Verhandlungstage until the end of may provided. The public Prosecutor’s office assumes that none of the witnesses, the accused himself knew.
Late but not too late
Co-plaintiffs and their attorneys reported on Wednesday in Detmold, Germany, at a press conference, it was particularly important for them, in front of a German court signs what is the Holocaust you and your family has done. “This process would have been 40, 50 years need to take place. But even now it is not too late to depict what once was,” said Justin, but the now 90-Year-old had as a teenager, the Nazi concentration and extermination camps only barely survived.
Visitors and journalists are lining up before a trial
For the first time was the arbeitsteilig organized mass murder of the German Nazis in Auschwitz in its entire extent charged, said co-plaintiff-attorney Cornelius Nestler. “Security guards have ensured that the entire Vernichtungsfabrik Auschwitz was backed up,” he said. The aid to the Mordsystem includes not only the Guarding of the Trains but also the maintenance of inhuman conditions, Hunger, and the Enabling of mass shootings.
bri/qu (dpa, epd, afp)