![]() ![]() The Hunt Me And War Criminals Files Trial In Munich The spectacle of frail defendants aged in their 90s appearing in courtrooms to answer for crimes dating back to 1945 or earlier has renewed debate about the countrys dark history. Once all the perpetrators are gone, Germany will close the judicial side of its coming-to-terms with the Nazi governments extermination of six million Jews and hundreds of thousands of others in the Holocaust. The teams investigations into the dark past of WWII have taken Rommels unit of five prosecutors, two judges and one police officer across the world to places such as Russia, Canada, the United States, Brazil and Argentina in search of their targets.įrom Hitler to the lowliest soldier or assistant, every Nazi wrongdoer up until the present day has been identified and recorded by the team then stored in their basement of documents, along with the places and nature of their crimes. German prosecutor, head of Central Office of the Judicial Authorities of the Federal States for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes, Jens Rommel in the archives room Jewish women and children, some wearing the yellow Star of David patch on their chests, at Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland, in around 1943 Rommel shows an index card bearing the name of former physician Josef Mengele in the archives room Since 2015, Rommel has headed the unit, which began in 1958 as the newly formed West Germany began investigating crimes which took place outside of the country, in former German-occupied territory such as Lithuania and Poland. The commission possesses the largest collection of files, documentation and materials concerning criminal activities during Nazi rule. ![]() The Hunt Me And War Criminals Files Trial In Munich.Includes bibliographical references and indexes. (Military legal resources, viewed on Oct. London : Published for the United Nations War Crimes Commission by H.M.S.O., 1947-1949. ![]()
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