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THE ALTUS TIMES-DEMOCRAT, ALTUS, OKLAHOMA
WEDNESDAY, MAY 20 1964
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But once the three judges in
their black velvet caps enter
that death penalty was abolish-
ed in West Germany after the
war. The most that the Ausch-
witz guards have to fear is a
are not unique to Germany.
Every society has its diseased
members, and they are often
kit
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as it lies squirming on the an-
alyst's couch, is being made to
face by the Auschwitz trial.
NEXT: From Andersonville
to Auschwitz.
jections, or ‘Squirtings,
i calls them.
lish and Austrian prisoners who
survived Auschwitz.
As the witnesses testify, out
pop the hobgoblins which have
been concealed from the Ger-
man nation for years the beat-
ings, the tortures, the gas cham-
bers, the Black Wall where pris-
By TOM A. CULLEN
European Staff Correspondent
FRANKFURT - (NEAi - A
dozen of the 22 Auschwitz death
camp guards who are standing
trial for mass murder here in
Frankfurt go home to their wiv-
es and children on weekends.
Under German law they are free
on bail
On Sundays these men mow
their lawns, polish their shiny
Volkswagens and Opels, or swap
talk with their neighbors across
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There were sadists among
the bureaucrats.
I completed in order to accom-
modate this trial, the accused
laugh and joke with the de-
fense counsel before the hear-
ing begins. One of the lawyers
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ministrators, the managerial
types who ran Auschwitz with
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the courtroom the atmosphere strevnentousorsproingt -he   Archetype of the sadists is   The prosecution is much more those who executed them were
changes Then the spotlight  derendantstecomemere  Prox- Boger, 56, of the Neanderthal concerned with the second cate- not made to feel responsible for
shifts to the witnesses, the com- 155 wr ■ nauon ’ gu           skull and  the gimlet eyes  gory of defendants the men on their actions.
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weasel-faced "“JoseffKlehr.who of presiding Judge Hans Hof.
-u- L-- a- L-I meyer, these crimes are seeing
light of day for the first time
Then there is Oswald Kaduk is Robert Mulka, 68, who was
57, the SS sergeant who is said camp adjutant at Auschwitz. A
to have shot gassed, beaten to silver - haired, distinguished-
i death, hanged and drowned hun- looking man, Mulka until re-
dreds of men, women and chil- cently was out on bail, free to
dren. A meat butcher by pro- run his successful export busi-
fession, Kaduk's specialty was ness in Hamburg.
| the inventor of the "Boger
oners were shot to gratify a
sadistic whim, the screams fol-
lowed by sudden silence.
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an apperance of detachment, void of feeling. This is the real-
swing," to which prisoners were They did not soil their hands
strapped and then swung back by personally committing mur-
and forth between guards who ier They merely gave the or-
beat them to the rhythmical ders.
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chief concern is to establish the the dock can be divided into
truth                           two categories. There are the
The whole German population sadists, the thugs who took de-
li, in eftect, undergoing mass light in killing. But then these
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chwitz,” the list of brutalities and children weekends.
7 charged against him runs to These are the officers and ad-
carbolic acid, others by making cused appear in court. Those on
naked people stand in the freez- ball who live out of town travel
ing winter night. others operat- to Frankfurt by train, in some
ed the poison gas. Some used cases leaving behind them lu-
pistols or clubs or an empty crative businesses or a medical
bottle or even their boots. One practice. In Frankfurt some put
as he । in his patient manner Judge
Hofmeyer is more like a psy-
choanalyst than a jurist. His
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tween 2.5 million and 4 million defendant, the notorious Wil-
prisoners at Auschwitz in Po -helm Boger, is said to have
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to kick the stools out from men Mulka is a very hard man to
who were about to be hanged. pin down. He assures the judge
The Bogers and the Kaduks that his functions were concern-
sit in the courtroom like zom- ed purely with supply and pap-
bies without a glimmer of com- er work
prehension of what the trial is The truth is, of course, that
about. Not a flicker of remorse Auschwitz operated on the in I
come . vast analyses couch attracted’to prisons, either as                 Pays over their gaeosuprincdplethatrthoswho
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