{"id":45951,"date":"2016-08-26T17:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=45951"},"modified":"2016-08-25T13:17:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T11:17:31","slug":"26-00-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=45951","title":{"rendered":"WJC President Lauder welcomes German efforts to prosecute more former Nazi camp guards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jewish.pl\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/jewish.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/cropped-cropped-logo-strona1.jpg\" alt=\"JEWISH.PL\" width=\"35%\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><span><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/jewish.pl\/en\/2016\/08\/10\/wjc-president-lauder-welcomes-german-efforts-to-prosecute-more-former-nazi-camp-guards\/\" target=\"_blank\">WJC President Lauder welcomes German efforts to prosecute more former Nazi camp guards<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Admin<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px;\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-content-single size-content-single wp-post-image aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/jewish.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Stutthof.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jewish.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Stutthof.jpg 600w, http:\/\/jewish.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Stutthof-300x196.jpg 300w\" alt=\"http:\/\/stutthof.org\/\" width=\"90%\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>credits: http:\/\/stutthof.org\/<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Investigators in Germany completed preliminary investigations into thousands of suspected former Nazi concentration camp guards and are to bring charges against eight people.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">German Nazi hunter Jens RommelGerman Nazi hunter Jens RommelThe Central Office for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes found that four men and four women born between 1918 and 1927 who worked in the concentration camp Stutthof, near Gdansk, were still alive in Germany, according to the head of the agency, Jens Rommel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">While the men worked as security guards, the women were employed in jobs such as typists and telephone operators at the camp, Rommel said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Furthermore, the Nazi hunters are looking at more possible suspects from the camps in Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Majdanek and Neuengamme. All suspects could be charged with being an accessory to the murder of thousands of people, most of them Jews, during World War II.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Rommel expressed his hope for a quick ruling by the Federal Court in the appeal brought by former SS officer Oskar Gr\u00f6ning, the \u2018Bookkeeper of Auschwitz\u2019 who was convicted by a L\u00fcneburg court last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cWe hope that the High Court will clarify the legal situation,\u201d Rommel said. The now 95-year-old Gr\u00f6ning was sentenced to four years in prison for being an accessory to murder in at least 300,000 cases at Auschwitz-Birkenau.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Lauder: \u2018It\u2019s critical that those who took part in genocide are put on trial, irrespective of age\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Ronald S. Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, welcomed Rommel\u2019s statement. He said: \u201cGermany\u2019s commitment to identifying more former Nazi camp guards is encouraging. The World Jewish Congress welcomes the fact that Special Prosecutor Jens Rommel are continuing to bring to trial those who are suspected of having aided and abetted the murder of thousands of Jews in Nazi camps during World War II. He and his staff deserve praise and support for their efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cGiven the vast system of concentration and extermination camps put in place by the Nazis, and the number of personnel needed to run and guard these sites, it comes as no surprise that a few of these perpetrators are still alive, even today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cIt is critical that all those who took part in the genocide of Jews and crimes against humanity are put on trial, irrespective of their age.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cAs Jews, we rightly expect that no stone be left unturned when it comes to dealing with Nazi crimes, and that anyone suspected of involvement in mass murder, who is still alive, be prosecuted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cFor decades, Germany did very little to bring Nazi war criminals to justice, but as long as it is still possible it must be done,\u201d said Lauder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In June 2016, former SS guard Reinhold Hanning became the latest Nazi war criminal to be convicted by a court.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px;\" \/>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> twoje uwagi, linki, wlasne artykuly, lub wiadomosci przeslij do: <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 710px;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WJC President Lauder welcomes German efforts to prosecute more former Nazi camp guards Admin credits: http:\/\/stutthof.org\/ Investigators in Germany completed preliminary investigations into thousands of suspected former Nazi concentration camp guards and are to bring charges against eight people. 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