Deutsch Schützen massacre

The Deutsch Schützen massacre was a 1945 mass killing of approximately 60 Jewish forced laborers by the Waffen-SS in Deutsch Schützen-Eisenberg in Austria. At the old church, Martinskirche, in the farmland on the west side of Deutsch Schützen, a plaque is erected on the exterior of the building memorializing those murdered in the massacre.

Incident and aftermath

The incident occurred on 29 March 1945.[1]

The victims' remains were found in 1995 by the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien.[2] In 2008, Viennese political science student Andreas Forster discovered the name of Adolf Storms in records of the incident. Forster's professor Walter Manoschek gathered evidence and conducted a videotaped interview with Storms.[3] In 2009, then 90-year-old Storms was indicted for his alleged involvement in the killings.[4]

Storms died on June 28, 2010, at the age of 90.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ Memmott, Mark (17 November 2009). "90-Year-Old Alleged Nazi Charged With 58 Counts Of Murder From 1945 Killings." National Public Radio
  2. ^ Rising, David (17 November 2009). "90-year-old charged in Germany for Nazi-era crimes.[dead link‍]" Associated Press
  3. ^ Staff report (21 October 2008). "Student tracks down Nazi war crimes suspect." The Daily Telegraph
  4. ^ Mackey, Robert (17 November 2009). "Former SS Man Charged in 1945 Massacre." The New York Times
  5. ^ Associated Press (6 July 2010). No. 4 Most-Wanted Nazi Dies a Free Man in Germany Associated Press

Further reading

  • Sander, Ulrich (2008). Mörderisches Finale: Naziverbrechen bei Kriegsende [Murderous Finale: Nazi War Crimes.] (in German). Köln: PapyRossa. ISBN 978-3-89438-388-6. Archived from the original on 2008-06-07. Retrieved 2012-07-16.
  • Jelinek, Walter Manoschek (Hg.); mit einem Text von Elfried (2009). Der Fall Rechnitz: das Massaker an Juden im März 1945 [The Rechnitz Case: The Massacre of Jews in March 1945.] (in German). Wien: Braumüller. ISBN 978-3-7003-1714-2. Archived from the original on 2017-08-02. Retrieved 2012-07-16.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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