Language:
Hungarian
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust Füzetek
Angaben zur Quelle:
12 (1999) 43-72
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
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War crime trials
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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World War, 1939-1945 Conscript labor
Abstract:
Toward the end of the Second World War, the Nazis drafted the local population, especially the Hitlerjugend, as well as forced laborers from Eastern Europe and Hungarian Jews, to build fortifications along the eastern border of Austria. In the town Deutsch-Schützen, up to 500 Jews were employed in this work, under the command of HJ leader Alfred Weber. At the end of March 1945, with the approach of the Red Army, Weber (apparently on higher orders) ordered their murder. Several SS-men and gendarmes took part in the shooting of 60 Jews; a group of 17-year-old HJ leaders assisted. Then the same personnel drove the rest of the Jews on a death march, which few survived. Details the laws and judicial procedures against Nazis and war criminals in postwar Austria. The young HJ leaders were tried in a people's court in 1946; the court did not accept their plea of compulsion to obey orders, and sentenced them to (brief) prison terms. Weber was apprehended only in 1956. By that time Austrians were determined to forgive and forget. The court ruled that Weber's guilt was not proved beyond a reasonable doubt and acquitted him.
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