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  • Germany charges former Mauthausen death-camp protect

    The former Nazi death camp of Mauthausen in northern Austria, 23 November 2018 Symbol copyright AFP Symbol caption Tens of heaps had been killed at Mauthausen

    German prosecutors have charged a 95-yr-antique guy with being an accessory to the deaths of tens of hundreds of inmates at an Austrian Nazi loss of life camp.

    Identified simplest as Hans H for criminal reasons, the Berlin resident is claimed to had been a shield at Mauthausen from mid-1944 to early 1945.

    A remark from the Berlin prosecutor’s place of work accuses him of being part of the killing operation.

    He is the most recent of a couple of former loss of life-camp guards to stand justice.

    Half of the ONE HUNDRED NINETY,000 folks held at Mauthausen, Austria’s biggest Nazi death camp, had been killed. Hans H is accused of being an adjunct to the deaths of 36,223 of them.

    Image caption Mauthausen used to be Austria’s biggest Nazi death camp

    Other latest circumstances include that of Johann Rehbogen, NINETY FOUR, who went on trial on 6 November accused of complicity in mass homicide at the Stutthof camp in what’s now northern Poland.

    Another prison case comes to a 94-yr-old former SS guard accused of helping and abetting mass homicide at Auschwitz-Birkenau. A court docket in Mannheim is deciding whether or not to go in advance with an ordeal.

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    more 94-year-olds, Oskar Groening and Reinhold Hanning, who had been each at Auschwitz, were successfully convicted but died prior to serving jail sentences.

    The criminal foundation for attempting former demise-camp guards changed in 2011 with the conviction of John Demjanjuk, a shield on the Sobibor camp in occupied Poland.

    His trial opened up the possibility of prosecuting former guards as a result of they had been part of a demise-camp operation, in place of wanting to rate them with collaborating immediately in atrocities.

  • Holocaust trial: Germany tries former SS guard at Stutthof camp

    Johann R in court in Muenster, 6 November Image copyright EPA Image caption The face of the defendant, seen here in court, has been obscured by court order

    A former SS guard has gone on trial in Germany accused of complicity in mass murder at a Nazi death camp during World War Two.

    Identified as Johann Rehbogen, the 94-year-old served in the Stutthof camp in what is now northern Poland from June 1942 to September 1944.

    He denies knowing anything about atrocities committed there.

    Because he was not yet aged 21, he is being tried in a juvenile court in Münster, western Germany.

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    The former guard, who uses a wheelchair, faces a sentence of 15 years if convicted but is unlikely to serve any time in prison because of his advanced age.

    Image copyright AFP Image caption Stutthof has been preserved as a museum Image copyright AFP Image caption Crematorium at Stutthof Image copyright AFP Image caption Bunks for inmates at Stutthof

    The defendant is “accused in his capacity as a guard of participating in the killing operations”, said Mr Brendel.

    It has still to be determined whether the other former SS guard is fit to stand trial.

    What was Stutthof?

    Image copyright Stutthof Museum Image caption SS leader Heinrich Himmler (centre) visited Stutthof

    Located near the city of Danzig (now Gdansk), it was originally an internment camp before being officially designated a concentration camp in 1942.

    From June 1944, prisoners were murdered in a gas chamber.

    More than 65,000 people died in Stutthof before it was liberated by the Soviet Army on 9 May 1945.

    Who is the defendant?

    Johann Rehbogen was captured by the US Army after the war but returned to civilian life, working as a landscape architect for the North Rhine-Westphalia state authorities.

    Questioned by police last year, he denied knowing about atrocities in the camp. Although he was not named by the court in Münster, his name has been published by the Wiesenthal Center, which investigates Nazi war crimes.

    “If one looks at how many evil doings and crimes were perpetuated, one can understand why elderly people too have to face prosecution,” said Mr Brendel.

    “Germany owes it to the families and victims to prosecute these Nazi crimes even today. That is a legal and moral question.”

    How do survivors regard the trial?

    Relatives of those murdered at Stutthof are attending the trial. Among them is one of the plaintiffs, Ben Cohen, whose grandmother Judy Meisel is a survivor of the camp.

    He told the BBC it was good for her to see Germany pursue the case.

    “Her being able to witness even some of this process, even from afar, is a sense of closure,” he said.

    “To have Germany listening to her is very powerful for her.

    “I speak to her all the time and I can see a new perspective that this gives her on things, so that could maybe be considered a form of closure. But closure is a difficult word in this context.”

  • Munich replaces ‘disrespectful’ Holocaust memorials

    Memorial to Landauers in Munich, 26 Jul 18 Image copyright EPA Image caption The First of Munich’s new Holocaust plaques went up on Thursday

    The government in Munich have began installing new Holocaust memorials to replace brass cobblestone reminders of the Nazis’ sufferers.

    The cobblestones are considered disrespectful by way of Bavarian Jewish leader Charlotte Knobloch and some other critics, mainly as a result of they get dirty and are trodden on.

    They additionally exist in more than 1,000 puts in Europe.

    In Munich they’re being changed with new plaques and steles.

    These are being installed at the remaining identified addresses of Holocaust victims. Alternatively this initiative is to this point simplest taking place in Munich.

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    the town says the brand new memorial machine will commemorate 10,000 Munich men, women and youngsters murdered by way of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933-1945.

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    Media captionPreserving the reminiscences of Holocaust victims

    In December Bavaria’s excellent court sponsored the town’s 2015 resolution to interchange the cobblestones, or “Stolpersteine” (“stumbling stones” in English), which lie within the pavement outdoor victims’ former properties or workplaces.

    but the stones, created by way of the German artist Gunter Demnig, even have many supporters in Germany and elsewhere. A petition to prevent Munich getting rid of them has gathered more than ONE HUNDRED,000 signatures, Deutsche Welle reports.

    A plaque installed on Thursday commemorates Tilly and Franz Landauer. Tilly died in Auschwitz dying camp in 1944, and Franz in Westerbork camp within the Netherlands, in 1943.

    Franz used to be the brother of former Bayern Munich soccer membership president Kurt Landauer, who fled to Switzerland in 1939.

    The Primary steles, colored gold and silver, additionally went up on Thursday. They commemorate philologist Friedrich Crusius, who was mentally sick and murdered through the Nazis in 1941, and Jewish couple Paula and Siegfried Jordan, additionally murdered in 1941, who were art curators.

    In the heart of Berlin a memorial which include nearly THREE,000 stone blocks commemorates the six million Jews murdered by means of the Nazis.

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