German Court: Trial Of Nazi Guard Unlikely To Be Restarted
A German court says it’s unlikely the trial of a former Nazi concentration camp guard that collapsed in December over concerns about the defendant’s health will resume, after a doctor found the 95-year-old still unfit to face the court.
The Muenster state court said Monday that judges still need to make a final decision and the prosecution can appeal, but it seems unlikely Johann Rehbogen’s trial can be restarted.
The trial was broken off in December after Rehbogen, a former SS guard at the Stutthof concentration camp, was hospitalized for heart and kidney issues, causing several hearings to be canceled.
The court ended the trial under German legal regulations preventing overly long gaps, but said it could be restarted from the beginning if Rehbogen’s health improved.
Rehbogen was one of two former Stutthof guards under investigation by the Dortmund prosecutors’ office. Even though their times at the camp overlap, their cases have already been separated because the other suspect was deemed unfit for trial.
Rehbogen, however, appeared outwardly healthy when his trial opened Nov. 6, listening attentively to the proceedings and answering basic questions from the judges.
He is accused of serving as a guard at the Stutthof camp, east of Danzig, which is today the Polish city of Gdansk, from June 1942 to about early September 1944. More than 60,000 people were killed in the camp and he faces hundreds of counts of accessory to murder on allegations that, as a guard, he aided in the process.
In a statement to the court read by his attorney, Rehbogen told the panel of judges in one session that while he served at Stutthof, he was “not a Nazi.” He suggested that he knew prisoners were being mistreated, but denied any knowledge of the camp’s gas chamber or any participation in killing them.
“As a Christian it was hard for me to be part of all of it,” Rehbogen told the court. “But I was too scared to protest.”
A German court says it’s unlikely the trial of a former Nazi concentration camp guard that collapsed in December over concerns about the defendant’s health will resume, after a doctor found the 95-year-old still unfit to face the court.
The Muenster state court said Monday that judges still need to make a final decision and the prosecution can appeal, but it seems unlikely Johann Rehbogen’s trial can be restarted.
The trial was broken off in December after Rehbogen, a former SS guard at the Stutthof concentration camp, was hospitalized for heart and kidney issues, causing several hearings to be canceled.
The court ended the trial under German legal regulations preventing overly long gaps, but said it could be restarted from the beginning if Rehbogen’s health improved.
Rehbogen was one of two former Stutthof guards under investigation by the Dortmund prosecutors’ office. Even though their times at the camp overlap, their cases have already been separated because the other suspect was deemed unfit for trial.
Rehbogen, however, appeared outwardly healthy when his trial opened Nov. 6, listening attentively to the proceedings and answering basic questions from the judges.
He is accused of serving as a guard at the Stutthof camp, east of Danzig, which is today the Polish city of Gdansk, from June 1942 to about early September 1944. More than 60,000 people were killed in the camp and he faces hundreds of counts of accessory to murder on allegations that, as a guard, he aided in the process.
In a statement to the court read by his attorney, Rehbogen told the panel of judges in one session that while he served at Stutthof, he was “not a Nazi.” He suggested that he knew prisoners were being mistreated, but denied any knowledge of the camp’s gas chamber or any participation in killing them.
“As a Christian it was hard for me to be part of all of it,” Rehbogen told the court. “But I was too scared to protest.”
2 comments:
HERE WE SEE A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THE JUSTICE OF THE WORLD, A PERSON WHO KILLED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IS TO FRAIL TO STAND JUSTICE, BUT A FILM OR STAGE STAR WHO WE CAN BRING DOWN BY BRINGING A CASE OF PEDOPHILIA OR INAPPROPRIATE CONDUCT 40 YEARS A GO, WE TAKE TO COURT.AND RUIN HIS LIFE
THE SAME WAY ISRAEL WHOSE ONLY AIM IS TO HAVE A COUNTRY TO LIVE IN AFTER THE HOLOCAUST IS INCORRECT TO FIGHT FOR ITS EXISTENCE.
WE THE JEWISH PEOPLE ONLY HAVE A TORAH AND NOTHING ELSE WERE TO LEARN FROM, LOOK AT THE WORLDS BEHAVIOR AND MORALES.
AND THAT IS THE REASON, I AND LOTS OF ENGLISH PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TO BE ONE WITH EEC, THIS IS GERMANYS THIRD TRY TO TAKE OVER THIS COUNTRY.
I AM SURPRISED NOT TO SEE COMMENTS ON THIS FUCKING GERMAN BASTARD, OUR COMMUNITY WANT TO KNOW HOW SO MANY JEWS GOT MURDERED IN THE HOLOCAUST
THE ANSWER IS THAT WE JEWS FRUM AND NOT FRUM ALL WANT TO BE RESPECTED BY THE GOYIM (GENTILES) THAT IS ALL THAT MATTERS BY FRUM AND NOT FRUM JEWS.
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