How Vienna college project led to charges over Nazi massacre

[iandhr]

Source: Haaretz

Former SS sergeant Adolf Storms lived in Germany unnoticed for more than six decades after World War II, until an Austrian university student last year came across his name while researching a 1945 massacre of Jewish forced laborers.

The student gave the information to state prosecutors near Storms' hometown of Duisburg, and they have now filed charges against the 90-year-old on 58 counts of murder for the killings near the Austrian village of Deutsch Schuetzen, a German court said on Tuesday.

On March 29, 1945, the accused and his accomplices brought at least 57 Jewish forced laborers in several groups to a nearby forest area, where they had to give up their valuables and kneel by a grave, the court said in a statement. The accused and other SS members then cruelly shot the Jewish forced-laborers from behind.


The day following the massacre, Storms is accused of personally shooting another Jew who could no longer walk during a forced march in Austria from Deutsch Schuetzen to the village of Hartberg, the court said

Read more: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1128817.html

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Impressive work by the student to uncover the person who did this

[sasquatch]

1. In Chicago they're trying top stifle this kind of journalism though

[bertman]

2. Please elaborate, oh big-footed one. I don't know what it is you speak of.

[sasquatch]

3. .

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/us/25innocence.html

[janx]

4. This is fascinating! The students will learn from it regardless of

how it turns out. It will make some of them more determined. ;-)

[bertman]

5. Thanks for the link, sasquatch. I suppose the Austrian project could be called the "Guilt" Project

as opposed to the Innocence Project here in the U.S., but you're right that the "authorities" in Chicago don't seem too thrilled to have anyone questioning their professional conduct. I would call their response to the Innocence Project's investigation shameful at best, and unAmerican at worst.