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From British daily The Guardian:
The hunt for Doctor Death
As an SS medic, Aribert Heim carried out horrific experiments on concentration camp prisoners. He escaped and is thought to be hiding in Argentina – but the net may finally be closing. Rory Carroll and Uki Goñi on the search for the last of the Nazis
Tuesday January 8, 2008
It was 1945 and Europe was a crime scene. The most destructive war in history had left a miasma of ruined cities, refugees and occupation armies, but there was worse than that. The Nazi extermination camps had been discovered and little-known placenames were becoming sickeningly famous. Auschwitz, Birkenau, Belzec, Buchenwald, Mauthausen, Sobibór, Treblinka. It was time for a reckoning.
The Nuremberg trials sent Hitler’s senior henchmen to the gallows or long stretches in prison. But others escaped. Quietly, with barely a ripple, middle- and low-ranking war criminals slipped the Nuremberg net and subsequent efforts to catch them. They obtained false papers, packed their bags and vanished across the Atlantic to a safe haven: South America. …
As the decades slid by, a handful were caught. Adolf Eichmann, an architect of the Holocaust, was kidnapped by Israeli agents in Argentina in 1960. Klaus Barbie, the “Butcher of Lyons”, was extradited from Bolivia in 1983. Erich Priebke, a Waffen SS captain, was extradited from Argentina in 1995. The story petered out. The fugitives were no longer just pensioners but octogenarians, nonagenarians and, for the most part, dead. When the 20th century ended so, it seemed, did the hunt for Nazis.
Not quite. The Simon Wiesenthal Centre recently made a bombshell announcement. The hunt was back on.
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Revolt against the peasant president
Since the government has declared the referendum an ‘illegal survey’ some 6,700 students and members of the Unión Juvenil Crucenista, a quasi-militia which sports military gear and sometimes swastikas, will staff polling stations. ‘We’re so proud of these kids. With them we have nothing to fear,’ said one middle-class woman at a rally.
Local TV showed militia members roughing up indigenous street traders and knocking one over as they sped away in vehicles. Graffiti have sprouted across the city. ‘This 4 May grab your weapons, we’re going to kill all the Kollas,’ said one. The Kolla were a pre-Inca race whose name is now used as an insult. Other slogans call Morales a llama and Chávez a monkey.
Until a 1952 revolution, indigenous people were not allowed near the presidential palace in La Paz, let alone to vote, and their empowerment under Morales has discomfited many pale-skinned Bolivians. ‘Racism and exclusion is a part of this autonomy process,’ said Gabriela Montano, the President’s envoy to Santa Cruz. In a recent interview her boss was more forthright: ‘They do not accept a peasant and an indigenous person as a President of the republic.’
The Guardian 2008
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Buchenwald: August 1989
Thursday 02 July 2009
edited by John Rety
by Jude Rosen
Walking uphill by the waving
beech-trees cordonned off, it is a shock
to find a beech wood as plain and obvious
as its name. I have never heard
there was a Buchenwald
at Buchenwald, a forbidden field of stumps, experiments
in selective growth, and a quarry’s secrets.
Through a slit in the carapace
of silence now covering the place,
I make out where the Russian soldiers
were shot. In the museum staring
at the shelf, I puzzle over pickle jars,
the floating bits of green and brown
in brine: hearts and gizzards –
it astounds a Japanese couple to see
someone break down in sobs.
Time is so erased, I miss the last bus
and have to walk back past the dark grey
hollows of the beech trees. As I stick
my thumb up hopeful of a lift, an ice-blue
Trabi hurtles by, with three people
hanging out, thumbing their noses
to jeer at the stranger. It is
eight miles to Weimar.
Jude Rosen was born in the east end of London. She travelled frequently to Germany to conduct research on fascism and resistance. This poignant poem will appear in her new pamphlet A Small Gateway (Hearing Eye).
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/culture/well_versed/buchenwald_august_1989
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Suspected Nazi Indicted in Germany
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: July 28, 2010
Filed at 9:42 a.m. ET
BERLIN (AP) — A suspected former Nazi death camp guard has been charged with participating in the murder of 430,000 Jews and other crimes during the Third Reich, German prosecutors said Wednesday.
Samuel Kunz, 88, was informed last week of his indictment on charges including participation in the murder of 430,000 Jews at the Belzec death camp in occupied Poland, where he allegedly served as a guard from January 1942 to July 1943, prosecutor Christoph Goeke in Dortmund said.
Kunz is also charged with murder over ”personal excesses” in which he allegedly shot a total of 10 Jews in two other incidents, Goeke told The Associated Press.
Kunz, who is No. 3 on the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s list of most-wanted Nazi suspects, lives near the western German city of Bonn. When reached by phone, he said he did not want to talk about the allegations and hung up.
Kunz was not detained because officials who interviewed him think that he will not try to flee the country, a person familiar with the case said. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to reveal details of the investigation.
Goeke said the case has been sent to the state court in Bonn, where officials were considering whether and when to hold a trial — a standard procedural step in Germany.
Bonn court spokesman Matthias Nordmeyer said the court did not want to comment now on the case.
Efraim Zuroff, the top Nazi hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said Kunz participated in the so-called Operation Reinhard to eliminate Polish Jewry.
”The indictment of Samuel Kunz is a very positive development,” Zuroff told AP from Jerusalem. ”It reflects recent changes in the German prosecution policy, which have significantly enlarged the number of suspects who will be brought to justice.”
Zuroff said Kunz had never previously been on trial over his alleged Nazi-era past and that his name first came up in investigations connected to the trial of John Demjanjuk.
Demjanjuk, 90, is currently on trial in Munich on charges of being an accessory to the murder of 28,060 Jews as a guard at the Sobibor death camp in occupied Poland. He denies he was ever a camp guard.
Prosecutors allege that both Kunz and the Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk, a retired Ohio autoworker who was deported to Germany from the U.S. last year, trained as guards at the Trawniki SS camp.
Kunz, an ethnic German, was born in August 1921 on Russia’s Volga River.
During World War II, as a soldier with the Soviet Red Army, he was captured by the Germans and given the choice of either staying at the Chelm prisoner of war camp or cooperating with the Nazis, said Klaus Hillenbrand, a German expert who has written several books on the Nazi period.
Kunz agreed to work with the Nazis and, after he was trained at Trawniki, was transferred to Belzec where he served as a camp guard, Hillenbrand said.
After the war, he moved to Bonn, worked for many years at a federal ministry and was granted German citizenship. In the 1960s he gave testimony as a witness about his time at the death camp in a different trial.
Authorities recently stumbled over Kunz’ case when they studied old documents from German post-wars trial about Trawniki in connection with the Demjanjuk trial. After several German media then reported about Kunz’ alleged Nazi past, the Dortmund prosecutor’s office started an investigation into the allegations, Hillenbrand said.
”During the 1960s, prosecutors were not interested in charging low-ranking guards,” Hillenbrand said.
”That changed in the last ten years, when a new generation of prosecutors took over and there’s a new way of thinking among them — the law itself was not changed, just the interpretation of the law.”
Despite a recent push by prosecutors to track down Nazi suspects, their efforts often come too late.
According to media reports, former Nazi SS officer Erich Steidtmann, who had been suspected but never convicted of involvement in World War II massacres, died on Saturday.
Steidtmann was a captain in the Nazi’s elite SS force who led several battalions which allegedly carried out the mass murder of Jews, and he was long sought by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
He was investigated several times for his alleged involvement in killings at the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943 and two massacres in the Polish city of Lublin.
Adolf Storms, a 90-year-old former SS sergeant who was No. 4 on the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s list of most-wanted Nazi war crimes suspects, died earlier this month before he could be brought to trial.
Prosecutors were investigating Storms in connection with 58 counts of murder for his alleged involvement in a massacre of Jewish forced laborers in a forest near the Austrian village of Deutsch Schuetzen.
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