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FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1991
Ex-SS Officer Denies
Killings At Auschwitz
Bonn (JTA) — A former
Nazi SS official, known by
Auschwitz inmates for his
brutality, claimed in court
last week that he was un-
aware of a program for the
systematic killing of Jews at
the notorious death camp.
Heinrich-Johannes
Kuehnemann, 72, is charged
with the murder of at least
five Jews and complicity in
the killings of hundreds of
other inmates. He is on trial
in the western German city
of Duisburg.
The charges against him
are based on eyewitness
testimony and documents
made available recently by
Poland and the Soviet
Union.
He insists he is innocent.
"I have always behaved in a
proper manner and was
never involved in wrongdo-
ing," Mr. Kuehnemann said.
He claimed no inmates
were ever killed in the part
of Auschwitz where he was
stationed, known as Ef-
fektenkammer 1.
Mr. Kuehnemann was first
identified in October 1989 at
the trial of another
suspected Nazi war
criminal, Ernest August
Koenig, who was thought to
have been the commanding
SS officer of the "Kanada
section at Auschwitz."
But Auschwitz survivors
failed to recognize him as
the man who shared respon-
sibility for the selection of
inmates for the gas
chambers.
A former deputy in the
Kanada section, Otto Graf,
was then asked to tell the
court the identity of the SS
commander. Instead of nam-
ing Mr. Koenig, he gave Mr.
Kuehnemann's name.
Investigators gasped in
disbelief, for the man he had
named was a well-known
opera singer in the town of
Essen. Mr. Kuehnemann
was later summoned to the
court and identified by sur-
vivors as the notorious
Auschwitz commander.
Israelis Probe Charges
Of Police, IDF Brutality
Tel Aviv (JTA) — Three
separate investigations are
under way into allegations
that members of the various
Israeli security services
employed brutal methods to
suppress the Palestinian
uprising, including tortur-
ing prisoners under inter-
rogation.
The accusation was made
by the human rights wat-
chdog group B'tselem, in a
report titled "The Interroga-
tion of Palestinians During
the Intifada," which was
published in March.
The allegations were in-
itially rejected by the Israel
Defense Force.
But Lt. Gen. Ehud Barak,
the new IDF chief of staff,
ordered an investigation last
week of charges that soldiers
physically abused Palestin-
ian prisoners. He put reserve
Gen. Rafael Vardi in charge.
The General Security Ser-
vices, or Shin Bet, has begun
its own inquiry into
B'tselem's charges that Pa-
lestinian detainees were tor-
tured while being question-
ed at Shin Bet facilities.
The investigators are two
senior Shin Bet officials and
a senior lawyer from the At-
torney General's Office.
The Justice Ministry an-
nounced, meanwhile, that a
ministerial committee would
investigate whether Shin
Bet abided by the rules for
interrogation laid down
after the so-called "Bus 400
affair."
That occurred in April
1984, when two captured Pa-
lestinian bus hijackers were
shot to death after the
soldiers handed them over to
Shin Bet operatives.
Another investigation was
ordered by Jerusalem
Magistrate Ezra Kamah,
who inquired into the role of
Jerusalem police during the
Temple Mount riots last
year.
Two senior police officers
were summoned for further
questioning about their par-
ticipation in the police ac-
tion of Oct. 8, 1990, when at
least 17 Palestinian rock-
throwers were shot to death
in the Old City.
The judge reopened the
probe on the basis of new in-
formation, which indicated
that at least one of the offi-
cers might have opened fire
although his own life was
not endangered.
The longest distance is to the
pocket.
—Yiddish proverb