Dokumentationszentrum Des Bundes Judischer Verfolgter des Naziregimes

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Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)

Creator

Wiesenthal, Simon

Dates

January 32, 1977 (indexed as 1977)

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Booklet : paper : Printed : ink : Beige, Blue, black ; Ht: 29,5 cm x W: 20,5 cm

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Compiled booklet of ten pages in length, crease horizontally and vertically, pages printed on one side, unbound. This 1977 annual report describes Simon Wiesenthal Center’s pursuit of Nazi war criminals. Printed for the purpose of spreading awareness of current Nazi and Nazi criminal's activity with the goal that these periodicals will inform the public and invite further leads as to the location of other Nazi criminals who have not stood trial for their crimes.

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DOKUMENTATIONSZENTRUMDES BUNDESJÜDISCHER VERFOLGTER DES NAZIREGIMES1010 WIEN I, SALZTORGASSE 6/4/II/5 — TELEFON 63 91 31, 63 98 05BANKVERBINDUNG:CREDITANSTALT BANKVEREIN WIENKONTO NR. 47-32 608DRESDNER BANK, FRANKFURTKONTO NR. 9807937Vienna, January 31, 1977Dear Friends of the Documentation Center,BULLETIN OF INFORMATION NO. 171. NAZI CRIMES IN KHOINIKI — WHITE RUSSIA2. THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST HORST BENDER1010 WIEN I, SALZTORGASSE 6/4/11/5 — TELEFON 63 91 31, 63 98 05KONTO NR. 47-32609KONTO NR. 5807937Following is our annual report on activities in 1976Back in 1974 inhabitants of the village of Khoiniki, in the district of Gomel, sent to the Documentation Center a report about the killing of Jews, Russians and Gipsies in this village. The inhabitants named a native German, A. M. Yermolchik, as one responsible for these crimes. He had served, for the Germans, first as an investigating judge, and later as Chief of the district police. Yermolchik had fled to Germany at the close of the war, where he had changed his name to Albert Krüger; since then, he had passed off for a German. For years the Documentation Center corresponded with German authorities about this case. The competent court was in Lüneburg. In the Fall of 1975 the trial against Krüger started. The court went to the Soviet Union, where it heard 28 witnesses. Krüger denied all charges and claimed that there had been no more Jews and Gipsies in the villages of Khoiniki und Novoselki, as they had been already killed by the 1st SS-Infantry Brigade. As proof he submitted the diary of the 1st SS-Infantry Brigade (incidentally the unit of the Austrian Representative Friedrich Peter, q.v.). As it had happened in many other cases, the defendant had to undergo an operation during the trial. After the proceedings had been adjourned for more than ten days, the trial was interrupted and is to be resumed in 1977.As reported in past newsletters, Horst Bender was Himmler's legal adviser and thus master of the SS-courts. As Simon Wiesenthal proved in his charge against the man two years ago, Bender decreed to the SS-courts that the murder of Jews for political reasons was to remain unpunished; it was only to be prosecuted if sexual motives were involved.Proceedings instituted by the Public Prosecutor in Stuttgart were staid after two years.Read automatically; may contain mistakes.

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English

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