18 Wartime Nazis Charged With Deaths of 120,000 Jews to Go on Trial in April
BONN (JTA)—Eighteen former
members of a Nazi security police
unit in Stanislav, Galicia, will go
on trial in Muenster in April on
charges of wartime murder of
thousands of Jews, it was an-
nounced last weekend.
The indictment charges the 18
former Nazis with the murder of
120,000 victims in the Stanislav
district alone between 1941 and
1948.
Hans Krueger, 56, of Lueding-
hausen, the principal defendant,
served as chief of the unit for
more than a year, starting in
August 1941. T h e indictment
charged that, under his command,
the Nazi "final solution of the
Jewish question" began with the
murder of 600 Jewish doctors,
lawyers and rabbis. The trial is
expected to last several months
with 179 survivors from several
countries coming to Muenster to
testify.
A survivor of the Czestochowa
ghetto broke down last weekend
as he described to a Lueneburg
war crimes trial court how one
of the defendants sent his two
children to a Nazi death camp.
The witness was Moses Gluecks-
mann, 65, who testified that Paul
Degenhardt, 70, commander of
the ghetto in 1942 and 1943, or-
dered his two children, aged 6
and 12, sent to the Treblinka
death camp where they were
murdered.
Two other former members of
Degenhardt's Nazi police unit,
Kurt Jericho, 57, and Alfred
Loebel, 51, are on trial with De-
genhardt. The three are charged
with the mass killing of Jews in
the ghetto in occupied Poland.
Degenhardt is charged with per-
sonally murdering or ordering the
execution of 469 Jews in the
ghetto and with helping to select
many thousands of the ghetto's
50,000 prisoners for the gas
chambers of Treblinka. The wit-
ness described Degenhardt as
"master of life and death" in the
ghetto.
Earlier, in Lueneburg, the state
prosecution requested the reopen-
ing of the trial of Reinhold Tu-
chenhagen, charged with having
participated in the murder of
Nissam Goldberg, a 58-year-old
Jewish businessman, in Krusch,
Western Prussia, during the Sec-
ond World War.
Tuchenhagen, 50; was brought to
trial for the murder along with
Otto Knurra, 70, last November,
but the jury decided to discon-
tinue the proceedings against both
defendants.
In Kiel, defense attorneys for
Martin Fellenz, a former lieu-
tenant colonel in Hitler's SS, on
trial for the wartime murder of
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in occupied Poland, requested
the court to acquit the man.
Fellenz has been on trial here on
mass murder charges since Aug.
31. He had been found guilty dur-
ing a previous trial, in 1962, for
aiding two murders in the Cracow
area in 1942, and received a four-
year prison sentence.
However, he was released by a
court that ordered the deduction
from his sentence of the period he
had served prior to the trial. Last
summer, he was rearrested on the
mass murder accusation, and the
federal high court ordered the new
trial, which is under way now.
In Frankfurt, the court trying,
former SS medical assistant Ger-
hard Neubert in the second Ausch-
witz death camp trial here ordered
the jailing of the former Nazi, who
has been free pending the out-
come of the trial.
Neubert is on trial with Wilhelm
Burger, 61 and Joseph Erber, 68,
on charges stemming from their
activities as personnel at the huge
murder camp where an estimated
3,000,000 to 4,000,000 persons, most
of them Jews, were put to death
during the war.
The court ordered the jailing
of Neubert, 56, a former West
German air force civilian em-
ploye, on a petition from Fred-
erich Kaul, an East Berlin at-
torney who is representing
former Auschwitz inmates now
living in East Germany. Neu-
bert is charged with complicity
in mass murder by picking vic-
tims for the Auschwitz gas
chambers.
Kaul said he should be taken
into investigatory
nvestigatory custody because
testimony by a former camp in-
mate, Norbert Wolheim, 52, now
living in Fresh Meadows, N. Y.,
had proved that Neubert had taken
part in such selections in Ausch-
witz. In granting the petition, the
court held that the testimony had
cast "strong suspicions" on Neu-
bert as having participated in the
selections.
In Berlin, Mayor Willy Brandt
assumed patronage of a docu-
mentary exhibit showing condi-
tions at the Auschwitz concentra-
tion camp. The exhibit will remain
open until the end of this month.
In an address at the exhibit, Prof.
Hans Joachim Leber, director of
the Free University of Berlin,
emphasized the importance of the
exhibit to the Germans and Ber-
liners of today. "Only by main-
taining an awareness of the con-
ditions of life in Auschwitz," he
said, "lies the possibility of the
avoidance of a similar tragedy").
A. M. Naumann, the investi-
gating judge of the Cologne law
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court, will go to Israel this ficials and representatives of the
Central Council of the Jews in
month to take testimony from 30
Germ any.
Jewish witnesses for a forth-
coming Nazi war crimes trial
here, the court announced.
Judge Naumann will take testi-
mony from Jan. 23 until Feb. 12
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