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Danish SS Man Faces Prosecution

Discussion in 'Concentration, Death Camps and Crimes Against Huma' started by GRW, Jul 27, 2015.

  1. GRW

    GRW Pillboxologist WW2|ORG Editor

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    Good they're still looking for them.
    "A retired lighting technician who served at a Second World War death camp where 1,400 Jews were executed could be the next Nazi tried for mass murder, it has emerged.
    Helmuth Leif Rasmussen was a guard at the Waldlager forest camp in Bobruisk, Belarus, where Jews too sick, fatigued or malnourished to work were forced to dig their own grave, strip naked and shot in the back of the head.
    After the war, Rasmussen, changed his surname to hide his dark past and slipped into mundane suburban life where he got married, had two children and became a film company lighting technician.
    Now 90, Rasmussen, a widower, potters around the affluent enclave in Copenhagen and idles away his time laughing and joking with his friends at a walking club for the elderly where no-one knows of his history.
    He could be the next former fascist to be tried over his involvement in the mass murder of Jews.
    Nazi hunters at the Simon Wiesenthal Center have held talks with prosecutors in Denmark to make the case for Rasbøl to be prosecuted over his role at the Waldlager death camp.
    A Waffen SS volunteer, one of 6,000 Danes to sign up during the Second World War, Rasmussen admitted he was at Waldlager - but insisted he was there to train to fight on the front line and took no part in the killings.
    The camp was created in 1942 after the Nazis invaded Brobruisk, which was home to 30,000 Jews."
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3173507/Pictured-Danish-Nazi-volunteer-facing-mass-murder-trial-horrors-death-camp-1-400-Jews-forced-dig-graves-strip-naked-shot-head.html#ixzz3h6LF4VON
     
  2. KJ Jr

    KJ Jr Well-Known Member

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    Let's hope they have enough to prosecute.
     

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