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German center continues
inquiries of Nazi crimes
Bonn — Auschwitz and Maj-
danek stand both for Nazi concen-
tration camps and for post-war
court cases in which Germany has
sought to come to terms with its
past.
The court proceedings are, in a
large part, an effort of the Lud-
wigsburg central office, set up 25
years ago for the purpose of pro-
bing Nazi crimes.
In a report in the Nurenberger
Nachrichten last December, Vol-
kerr Dieckmann found that the
center's staff of 35, which includes
10 judges and public prosecutors,
is still in the process of collecting,
collating, evaluating and refer-
ring to the courts all available
material on Nazi crimes.
The Ludwigsburg files, which
contain lists of people and over
16,000 places where offenses are
reported to have been committed,
is considered one of the most
exhaustive collections of docu-
ments on Nazi crimes of violence
in the world, totalling 1.3 million
entries.
The central office also has a col-
lection of over half a million
documents. The staff feels it is
their job not only to collect evi-
dence and unearth facts, but to
keep up with the constant task of
coming to terms with Germany's
past.
Between the end of the war and
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the beginning of 1983, proceed-
ings began against more than
88,000 people. 6,465 sentences
were handed down.According to
the center, the discrepancy be-
tween the number of cases and the
number of convictions is due in
part to the passage of time. As the
years go by, it becomes increas-
ingly more difficult to- investigate
allegations and collect evidence.
Many cases have been disposed
of by the death or illness of the
accused, but in a growing number
of cases, a conviction is no longer
possible because of inconclusive
evidence.
The Ludwigsburg office has a
close working relationship with
the authorities in countries
around the world, including most
East Bloc countries and the
United States.
The relationship is a close and
effective one, and only the East
German government still refuses
to offer any assistance.
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