Process
Once again Auschwitz: The case of Hubert e
They were only involved indirectly, but are drawn now, but to account for: Old men in concentration camps service actions. And not just on the ramp. For example, the 95-year-old Hubert e
On several occasions, the process was postponed opener against Hubert, for example,
Everything was prepared: the large hall in the district court of Neubrandenburg was occupied to the last seat. Extra for this process in the capacity of the courtroom had been magnified by the wall-openings. Not enough: An additional safety lock and an extra space for the media representatives were created. Journalists from America and Israel were announced. At the end of February the proceedings against Hubert should begin, but it is precisely he, the defendant, was missing. His health will not let Appeared, and confirmed at the time an er doctor to high blood pressure.
Responsibility, despite age and illness
17. In may, the court takes a new start-up, the role of Hubert, for example, as a medic in Auschwitz. The question of whether he is competent to stand trial, remains. A Dilemma in all of the late Nazi trials, in which over 90 have to answer Year after more than 70 years for their Actions. For decades the German justice system had not interested for those who were not involved in killings in concentration camps. Again, the process is postponed.
In the next experiment can now be negotiated. The elderly Accused will appear this Monday (12.09.2016) before the court in a wheelchair. Shortly before the trial, he was examined once more doctors.
Hundreds of potential defendants have died, without that they would have been prosecuted. A few of the last Survivors of the perpetrator generation is now done late in the process. The failure of the judiciary has long been regarded as a “second guilt” of the Germans. Of 6,500 SS guards at Auschwitz so far, 49 have been convicted. For comparison: Polish courts were settled in almost 700 cases. Alone in Auschwitz 1.1 million Jews, and tens of thousands of non-Jewish poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Sinti and Roma had been killed.
Hubert, member of the SS, paramedics and farmer
The proceedings against Hubert, for example, is a special, because the defendant had already served four years in an East German prison because of his activities as an SS man in Auschwitz. In the camp he was a medic, after his release from prison, he worked in agriculture. He was 20 when he volunteered for the Waffen-SS. Because he was the last surviving son of his family, had to return it after a time to the front to his fighting unit. Instead, he was assigned as a member of the SS medical corps squadron to Auschwitz. He wants to have no contact with prisoners had, in the interrogations. Treated he had only members of the SS.
Unusual: The Holocaust Survivor Eva Kor is reconciled on 23. April 2015 with the SS man, Oskar Gröning
The fate of the prisoners, he was nevertheless Clear: “of Course, everyone what is happening because I knew.” Huber e. for the dead 15 August to 14. September 1944, the responsibility. The indictment of at least 3681 Murdered, which had been brought with a total of 14 deportation trains into the camp.
The history of this process began two years ago, as Hubert Z. was arrested. 19. February 2014 beat investigators in eleven Federal States at the same time and through the apartments of 24 men and six women who were suspected to be former guards at Auschwitz have been looking for. The “Central office of the state justice administrations for the investigation of national socialist crimes” had provided the judiciary with Instructions. Among those arrested Hubert was
A prominent defender: Peter-Michael Diestel (left), the GDR’s last Minister of the interior, represents Hubert Z. straight right to the second defender Hannes Barck
Three weeks ago, he was in pretrial detention. In February 2014, the Prosecutor of the charge brought against the then 93-Year-old for accessory to murder in several Thousand cases. He is said to have contributed to the Work of the killing machinery in Auschwitz. First, the court rejected a case against the Old man due to health reasons. A complaint to the Prosecutor’s office in Rostock makes the process possible now.
Emotions even before the first Day of the trial
In advance of the Neubrandenburger Auschwitz trial, the court made nationwide headlines, as it did not allow a co-plaintiff. The Auschwitz Survivor had stated that he and his family had arrived with a train in Auschwitz. A train that is not on the list of a total of 14 of the deportation trains, which are the subject of the proceedings against Hubert, for example. Here, too, had to intervene a higher legal instance, to allow the next applicant.
And also the public Prosecutor and the defense delivered an emotion-Packed, public skirmishes. Peter-Michael Diestel, the last GDR Minister of the interior, and one of the three defenders of, for example, had said that the process was a death sentence for his client. The Auschwitz Survivors were outraged. And also the Prosecutor’s office was not squeamish. You had to take, for example, the blood pressure-enhancing means, in order to be for process be declared unfit.