Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust by Michael J. Bazyler

Author:Michael J. Bazyler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2014-03-20T04:00:00+00:00

*Strauch was not executed but transferred to Belgium where he was tried. Found guilty, he was again sentenced to death. He remained in custody until his death in 1955 in a Belgian hospital.

The last of the Einsatzgruppen defendants released was Adolph Ott. On May 9, 1958, he was set free, ten years and a month to the day after the court’s verdict. Ott admitted that Hitler’s order was that all Jews, whether partisans or not, had to be executed, and he acknowledged that he had killed Jews pursuant to that order. Specifically, he testified, “I told my sub-Kommando leaders that Jews, after they are seized and do not belong to a partisan movement or sabotage organization, must be shot on the basis of Hitler’s order.” When an incredulous court asked him if he meant this, he responded: “it is correct.”83

Ferencz, upon learning of the early releases, expressed his frustration in a letter to his former boss Taylor in December 1951:

I notice in this morning paper’s that a group of our Landsberg friends have been given their freedom as a Christmas present. These include...three Einsatzgruppen boys, Schubert, Jost and Nosske. Schubert confessed to personally supervising the execution of about 800 Jews in a humane manner to avoid the moral strain on the execution squad. You may recall that the deadline for cleaning up Simferopol was Christmas 1941 and that Schubert managed to kill all the Jews by then. So for Christmas ten years later he goes Scot free. Who says there is no Santa Klaus? Nosske was the one whom the other defendants called the biggest bloodhound of the day after the sentences were imposed and [he] only received twenty years. Now Nosske is free to join former Gen. Jost whose command ordered a fourth gas van when the three in operation executing women and children were insufficient to do the job properly. Noel, Noel, what the hell. 84

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