============================ENTRY NUMBER 00570:<\/p>\n
(Eine Deutsche Fassung steht weiter unten. German version below \u2013 German language character set required for correct display.)<\/p>\n
24 MARCH 2004, WEDNESDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n
\u201cGermany\u2019s dark side is its civil service – and German professors and top university administrators are all civil servants\u201d- 17<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fact is that the Italian victims were defenseless civilians, pulled out of bed or away from the kitchen, then tortured and shot. In Italy, Hans Schiffmann is being tried for murder, in absentia, in this case. In Germany, there will probably never be a trial.<\/p>\n
\u201cKurt Schrimm, Head of the Central Office for the Prosecution of Nazi War Crimes: \u2018Everything was checked, or checked again. Proceedings, or preliminary proceedings, were started against Hans Schiffmann. The files were examined, and then my colleague came to the conclusion, with which I agree, that what we had was not enough to make a case.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cThe murder of Gabriella degli Esposti and the other eleven victims of Castelfranco – no redress in Germany.<\/p>\n
\u201cA justice system scandal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Udo Guempel and Rene Althammer, \u201cSS-Verbrecher unbelligt – wie die deutsche Justiz die Verfolgung von Straftaetern verhindert,\u201c Westdeutscher Rundfunk, \u201eKontraste,\u201c broadcast 15 January 2004.<\/p>\n
“I love (my country) more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” – James Baldwin<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was not the solution of the question of national unity which stood at the beginning of the road to catastrophe (for Germany), but the failure to settle the question of freedom.\u201d – German Historian Heinrich August Winkler<\/p>\n
\u201cThe kind of thing I find particularly shameful in post-war German history,\u201d a friend reports, \u201cis that after 1945 the Federal Republic refused to provide the usual military widow\u2019s pension to Caroline von Stauffenberg.\u201d \u201cStauffenberg?\u201d I said. \u201cHer husband, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg,” she explained, \u201cattempted to assassinate Hitler by setting off a bomb at the dictator\u2019s military headquarters in East Prussia on 20 July 1944. Stauffenberg is honored in Germany today, but he was for a long time after the war — like Thomas Mann, Marlene Dietrich, every deserter from the Wehrmacht, and so many other Germans — regarded with contempt and widely considered to be a traitor to his country. I wonder how he would have been treated at a place like the Technical University of Munich.\u201d<\/p>\n
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24 M\u00c4RZ 2004, MITTWOCH, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n
\u201eDeutschlands Schattenseite ist sein Beamtentum – und alle deutschen Professoren und Spitzenadministratoren an den Universit\u00e4ten sind Beamte\u201c – 17<\/p>\n
\u201eTatsache ist: Die italienischen Opfer waren wehrlose Zivilisten, aus dem Bett oder vom Herd geholt, gefoltert und dann erschossen. In Italien wird Hans Schiffmann daf\u00fcr der Prozess wegen Mordes gemacht. In Deutschland wird es wohl kein Verfahren mehr geben.<\/p>\n
Kurt Schrimm, Leiter Zentralstelle zur Verfolgung von NS-Kriegsverbrechen: \u201aEs wurde hier dann gepr\u00fcft, neu gepr\u00fcft, ein Verfahren, ein Vorermittlungsverfahren gegen Hans Schiffmann eingeleitet, die Akten wurden gepr\u00fcft, und dann kam der Kollege zu der Auffassung und ich stimme dem zu, dass das was uns vorlag, noch nicht ausreicht.\u2019<\/p>\n
Der Mord an Gabriella degli Esposti und den anderen elf Opfern von Castelfranco: in Deutschland unges\u00fchnt.<\/p>\n
Ein Justizskandal.”<\/p>\n
Udo G\u00fcmpel and Rene Althammer, \u201eSS-Verbrecher unbelligt – wie die deutsche Justiz die Verfolgung von Straft\u00e4tern verhindert,\u201c Westdeutscher Rundfunk, \u201eKontraste\u201c-Sendung vom 15.01.2004.<\/p>\n
\u201cIch liebe (mein Land) mehr, als alle anderen L\u00e4nder auf der Welt, und genau aus diesem Grund bestehe ich auf das Recht, es ewig zu kritisieren.\u201c – James Baldwin<\/p>\n
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============================ENTRY NUMBER 00569:<\/p>\n
(Eine Deutsche Fassung steht weiter unten. German version below \u2013 German language character set required for correct display.)<\/p>\n
23 MARCH 2004, TUESDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n
\u201cGermany\u2019s dark side is its civil service – and German professors and top university administrators are all civil servants\u201d- 16<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are at least twenty-five cases that have been sloppily handled by the German justice system in this way. That means hundreds of victims against whom wrongs were committed that have not been redressed. It means dozens of perpetrators of crimes who are still running around free.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Office for the Prosecution of Nazi War Crimes should have investigated these crimes. Public prosecutor Kurt Schrimm knows that.<\/p>\n
\u201cKurt Schrimm, Head of the Central Office for the Prosecution of Nazi War Crimes: \u2018If there\u2019s a massacre, and women and children are among those killed, obviously you begin to suspect something.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cQuestion: \u2018As a matter of course?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cKurt Schrimm, Head of the Central Office for the Prosecution of Nazi War Crimes: \u2018As a matter of course, yes.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cQuestion: \u2018You begin to suspect something as a matter of course if civilians are involved?<\/p>\n
\u201cKurt Schrimm, Head of the Central Office for the Prosecution of Nazi War Crimes: \u2018Yes.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n
(To be continued)<\/p>\n
Udo Guempel and Rene Althammer, \u201cSS-Verbrecher unbelligt – wie die deutsche Justiz die Verfolgung von Straftaetern verhindert,\u201c Westdeutscher Rundfunk, \u201eKontraste,\u201c broadcast 15 January 2004.<\/p>\n
“I love (my country) more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” – James Baldwin<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was not the solution of the question of national unity which stood at the beginning of the road to catastrophe (for Germany), but the failure to settle the question of freedom.\u201d – German Historian Heinrich August Winkler<\/p>\n
\u201cThe kind of thing I find particularly shameful in post-war German history,\u201d a friend reports, \u201cis that after 1945 the Federal Republic refused to provide the usual military widow\u2019s pension to Caroline von Stauffenberg.\u201d \u201cStauffenberg?\u201d I said. \u201cHer husband, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg,” she explained, \u201cattempted to assassinate Hitler by setting off a bomb at the dictator\u2019s military headquarters in East Prussia on 20 July 1944. Stauffenberg is honored in Germany today, but he was for a long time after the war — like Thomas Mann, Marlene Dietrich, every deserter from the Wehrmacht, and so many other Germans — regarded with contempt and widely considered to be a traitor to his country. I wonder how he would have been treated at a place like the Technical University of Munich.\u201d<\/p>\n
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23 M\u00c4RZ 2004, DIENSTAG, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n
\u201eDeutschlands Schattenseite ist sein Beamtentum – und alle deutschen Professoren und Spitzenadministratoren an den Universit\u00e4ten sind Beamte\u201c – 16<\/p>\n
\u201eMindestens 25 durch die deutsche Justiz verschlampte F\u00e4lle: das sind Hunderte unges\u00fchnte Opfer, das sind Dutzende T\u00e4ter, die noch frei herumlaufen.<\/p>\n
Die Zentralstelle h\u00e4tte ermitteln m\u00fcssen: das wei\u00df auch Oberstaatsanwalt Schrimm:<\/p>\n
Kurt Schrimm, Leiter Zentralstelle zur Verfolgung von NS-Kriegsverbrechen: \u201aWenn Frauen und Kinder bei den Massakern ums Leben kommen, immer der Anfangsverdacht besteht.\u2019<\/p>\n
Frage: \u201aGrunds\u00e4tzlich?\u2019<\/p>\n
Kurt Schrimm, Leiter Zentralstelle zur Verfolgung von NS-Kriegsverbrechen: \u201aGrunds\u00e4tzlich. Ja.\u2019<\/p>\n
Frage: \u201aZivilisten ist f\u00fcr Sie ein grunds\u00e4tzlicher Anfangsverdacht?\u2019<\/p>\n
Kurt Schrimm, Leiter Zentralstelle zur Verfolgung von NS-Kriegsverbrechen: \u201aJa.\u2019”<\/p>\n
(Fortsetzung folgt)<\/p>\n
Udo G\u00fcmpel and Rene Althammer, \u201eSS-Verbrecher unbelligt – wie die deutsche Justiz die Verfolgung von Straft\u00e4tern verhindert,\u201c Westdeutscher Rundfunk, \u201eKontraste\u201c-Sendung vom 15.01.2004.<\/p>\n
\u201cIch liebe (mein Land) mehr, als alle anderen L\u00e4nder auf der Welt, und genau aus diesem Grund bestehe ich auf das Recht, es ewig zu kritisieren.\u201c – James Baldwin<\/p>\n
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============================ENTRY NUMBER 00568:<\/p>\n
(Eine Deutsche Fassung steht weiter unten. German version below \u2013 German language character set required for correct display.)<\/p>\n
22 MARCH 2004, MONDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n
\u201cGermany\u2019s dark side is its civil service – and German professors and top university administrators are all civil servants\u201d- 15<\/p>\n
\u201cQuestion: To have them taken care of in this way – what do you think about that?<\/p>\n
\u201cHeinz-Ludger Borgert, Director of the Federal Archives: \u2018Obviously that was probably a necessary bureaucratic solution that was decided on, but normally something like that shouldn\u2019t happen.\u2019 \u201d <\/p>\n
(To be continued)<\/p>\n
Udo Guempel and Rene Althammer, \u201cSS-Verbrecher unbelligt – wie die deutsche Justiz die Verfolgung von Straftaetern verhindert,\u201c Westdeutscher Rundfunk, \u201eKontraste,\u201c broadcast 15 January 2004.<\/p>\n
“I love (my country) more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” – James Baldwin<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was not the solution of the question of national unity which stood at the beginning of the road to catastrophe (for Germany), but the failure to settle the question of freedom.\u201d – German Historian Heinrich August Winkler<\/p>\n
\u201cThe kind of thing I find particularly shameful in post-war German history,\u201d a friend reports, \u201cis that after 1945 the Federal Republic refused to provide the usual military widow\u2019s pension to Caroline von Stauffenberg.\u201d \u201cStauffenberg?\u201d I said. \u201cHer husband, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg,” she explained, \u201cattempted to assassinate Hitler by setting off a bomb at the dictator\u2019s military headquarters in East Prussia on 20 July 1944. Stauffenberg is honored in Germany today, but he was for a long time after the war — like Thomas Mann, Marlene Dietrich, every deserter from the Wehrmacht, and so many other Germans — regarded with contempt and widely considered to be a traitor to his country. I wonder how he would have been treated at a place like the Technical University of Munich.”<\/p>\n
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22 M\u00c4RZ 2004, MONTAG, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n
\u201eDeutschlands Schattenseite ist sein Beamtentum – und alle deutschen Professoren und Spitzenadministratoren an den Universit\u00e4ten sind Beamte\u201c – 15<\/p>\n
\u201eFrage: Sind einfach auf diese Weise erledigt worden – und wie beurteilen Sie das?”<\/p>\n
Heinz-Ludger Borgert, Leiter Bundesarchiv: \u201aDas war wohl offensichtlich eine b\u00fcrokratische Notl\u00f6sung, die man hier gew\u00e4hlt hatte, die aber normalerweise so wohl nicht vorkommen sollte.\u2019 ”<\/p>\n
(Fortsetzung folgt)<\/p>\n
Udo G\u00fcmpel and Rene Althammer, \u201eSS-Verbrecher unbelligt – wie die deutsche Justiz die Verfolgung von Straft\u00e4tern verhindert,\u201c Westdeutscher Rundfunk, \u201eKontraste\u201c-Sendung vom 15.01.2004.<\/p>\n
\u201cIch liebe (mein Land) mehr, als alle anderen L\u00e4nder auf der Welt, und genau aus diesem Grund bestehe ich auf das Recht, es ewig zu kritisieren.\u201c – James Baldwin<\/p>\n
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============================ENTRY NUMBER 00567:<\/p>\n
(Eine Deutsche Fassung steht weiter unten. German version below \u2013 German language character set required for correct display.)<\/p>\n
21 MARCH 2004, SUNDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n
\u201cGermany\u2019s dark side is its civil service – and German professors and top university administrators are all civil servants\u201d- 14<\/p>\n
\u201cAgain researching the files in Ludwigsburg, we make a further discovery. The scandalous way in which the Hans Schiffmann case was handled is not an isolated incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cQuestion: \u2018This same procedure has been applied to other cases as well: setting it aside, waiting for the statute of limitations to expire, and then filing it away?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cHeinz-Ludger Borgert, Director of the Federal Archives: \u2018Yes, in over twenty-five cases.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n
(To be continued)<\/p>\n
Udo Guempel and Rene Althammer, \u201cSS-Verbrecher unbelligt – wie die deutsche Justiz die Verfolgung von Straftaetern verhindert,\u201c Westdeutscher Rundfunk, \u201eKontraste,\u201c broadcast 15 January 2004.<\/p>\n
“I love (my country) more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” – James Baldwin<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was not the solution of the question of national unity which stood at the beginning of the road to catastrophe (for Germany), but the failure to settle the question of freedom.\u201d – German Historian Heinrich August Winkler<\/p>\n
\u201cThe kind of thing I find particularly shameful in post-war German history,\u201d a friend reports, \u201cis that after 1945 the Federal Republic refused to provide the usual military widow\u2019s pension to Caroline von Stauffenberg.\u201d \u201cStauffenberg?\u201d I said. \u201cHer husband, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg,” she explained, \u201cattempted to assassinate Hitler by setting off a bomb at the dictator\u2019s military headquarters in East Prussia on 20 July 1944. Stauffenberg is honored in Germany today, but he was for a long time after the war — like Thomas Mann, Marlene Dietrich, every deserter from the Wehrmacht, and so many other Germans — regarded with contempt and widely considered to be a traitor to his country. I wonder how he would have been treated at a place like the Technical University of Munich.\u201d<\/p>\n
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21 M\u00c4RZ 2004, SONNTAG, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n
\u201eDeutschlands Schattenseite ist sein Beamtentum – und alle deutschen Professoren und Spitzenadministratoren an den Universit\u00e4ten sind Beamte\u201c – 14<\/p>\n
\u201eWieder auf der Suche in den Aktenbergen von Ludwigsburg. Wir machen eine weitere Entdeckung: Der skandal\u00f6se Umgang mit dem Fall Hans Schiffmann ist kein Einzelfall.<\/p>\n
Frage: \u201aDieses gleiche Verfahren ist noch in anderen F\u00e4llen angewandt worden, also: Ablage, Fristablauf und dann Archivierung?\u2019<\/p>\n
Heinz-Ludger Borgert, Leiter Bundesarchiv: \u201aJa, in einer Zahl von \u00fcber 25 F\u00e4llen.\u2019 ”
\n(Fortsetzung folgt)<\/p>\n
Udo G\u00fcmpel and Rene Althammer, \u201eSS-Verbrecher unbelligt – wie die deutsche Justiz die Verfolgung von Straft\u00e4tern verhindert,\u201c Westdeutscher Rundfunk, \u201eKontraste\u201c-Sendung vom 15.01.2004.<\/p>\n
\u201cIch liebe (mein Land) mehr, als alle anderen L\u00e4nder auf der Welt, und genau aus diesem Grund bestehe ich auf das Recht, es ewig zu kritisieren.\u201c – James Baldwin<\/p>\n
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============================ENTRY NUMBER 00566:<\/p>\n
(Eine Deutsche Fassung steht weiter unten. German version below \u2013 German language character set required for correct display.)<\/p>\n
20 MARCH 2004, SATURDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n
\u201cGermany\u2019s dark side is its civil service – and German professors and top university administrators are all civil servants\u201d- 13<\/p>\n
\u201cWar crimes and murder – simply file them away and forget them? As far as criminal law expert Felix Herzog is concerned, the authorities in Ludwigsburg are in clear violation of the German code of criminal procedure.<\/p>\n
\u201cQuestion: \u2018If a district attorney and a judge have knowledge of a capital crime, can they simply file it away and discard it?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cFelix Herzog, Professor of Criminal Law at the Free University of Berlin: \u2018No, according to the requirements of paragraph 152 of the code of criminal procedure, a criminal offense must be prosecuted, if there is sufficient factual evidence that the act occurred, which certainly seems to me to be true in these cases.\u2019 ”<\/p>\n
(To be continued)<\/p>\n
Udo Guempel and Rene Althammer, \u201cSS-Verbrecher unbelligt – wie die deutsche Justiz die Verfolgung von Straftaetern verhindert,\u201c Westdeutscher Rundfunk, \u201eKontraste,\u201c broadcast 15 January 2004.<\/p>\n
“I love (my country) more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” – James Baldwin<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was not the solution of the question of national unity which stood at the beginning of the road to catastrophe (for Germany), but the failure to settle the question of freedom.\u201d – German Historian Heinrich August Winkler<\/p>\n
\u201cThe kind of thing I find particularly shameful in post-war German history,\u201d a friend reports, \u201cis that after 1945 the Federal Republic refused to provide the usual military widow\u2019s pension to Caroline von Stauffenberg.\u201d \u201cStauffenberg?\u201d I said. \u201cHer husband, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg,” she explained, \u201cattempted to assassinate Hitler by setting off a bomb at the dictator\u2019s military headquarters in East Prussia on 20 July 1944. Stauffenberg is honored in Germany today, but he was for a long time after the war — like Thomas Mann, Marlene Dietrich, every deserter from the Wehrmacht, and so many other Germans — regarded with contempt and widely considered to be a traitor to his country. I wonder how he would have been treated at a place like the Technical University of Munich.\u201d<\/p>\n
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20 M\u00c4RZ 2004, SAMSTAG, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n
\u201eDeutschlands Schattenseite ist sein Beamtentum – und alle deutschen Professoren und Spitzenadministratoren an den Universit\u00e4ten sind Beamte\u201c – 13<\/p>\n
\u201eKriegsverbrechen und Mord – Einfach \u201azu den Akten\u2019 und vergessen? F\u00fcr den Strafrechtler Felix Herzog hat die Beh\u00f6rde in Ludwigsburg klar gegen die deutsche Strafprozessordnung versto\u00dfen.<\/p>\n
Frage: \u201aIst es denn f\u00fcr einen Staatsanwalt und einen Richter zul\u00e4ssig, ein Kapitalverbrechen, von dem er Kenntnis hat, einfach wegzuverf\u00fcgen und abzulegen?\u2019<\/p>\n
Felix Herzog, Strafrecht-Professor FU Berlin: \u201aNein, es ist die Verpflichtung gegeben, Legalit\u00e4tsprinzip, \u00a7152 Strafprozessordnung, dass eine Straftat verfolgt werden muss, wenn zureichende tats\u00e4chliche Anhaltspunkte daf\u00fcr bestehen, dass diese Tat geschehen ist und das scheint mir ja in diesen F\u00e4llen ganz offenkundig der Fall zu sein.\u2019 ”<\/p>\n
(Fortsetzung folgt)<\/p>\n
Udo G\u00fcmpel and Rene Althammer, \u201eSS-Verbrecher unbelligt – wie die deutsche Justiz die Verfolgung von Straft\u00e4tern verhindert,\u201c Westdeutscher Rundfunk, \u201eKontraste\u201c-Sendung vom 15.01.2004.<\/p>\n
\u201cIch liebe (mein Land) mehr, als alle anderen L\u00e4nder auf der Welt, und genau aus diesem Grund bestehe ich auf das Recht, es ewig zu kritisieren.\u201c – James Baldwin<\/p>\n
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============================ENTRY NUMBER 00565:<\/p>\n
(Eine Deutsche Fassung steht weiter unten. German version below \u2013 German language character set required for correct display.)<\/p>\n
19 MARCH 2004, FRIDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n
\u201cGermany\u2019s dark side is its civil service – and German professors and top university administrators are all civil servants\u201d- 12<\/p>\n
\u201cHeinz-Ludger Borgert, head of the federal archives:
\n\u2018That is in this case especially troubling, especially because the order concerning the expiration of the statute of limitations could not have been validly issued.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cQuestion:
\n\u2018Yes, because there is no statute of limitations in murder cases?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cHeinz-Ludger Borgert, head of the federal archives:
\n\u2018Exactly. Murder isn\u2019t normally covered by a statute of limitations, and because it\u2019s still punishable, this case can\u2019t be closed simply by issuing an order that the statute of limitations has run out\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
(To be continued)<\/p>\n
Udo Guempel and Rene Althammer, \u201cSS-Verbrecher unbelligt – wie die deutsche Justiz die Verfolgung von Straftaetern verhindert,\u201c Westdeutscher Rundfunk, \u201eKontraste,\u201c broadcast 15 January 2004.<\/p>\n
“I love (my country) more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” – James Baldwin<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was not the solution of the question of national unity which stood at the beginning of the road to catastrophe (for Germany), but the failure to settle the question of freedom.\u201d – German Historian Heinrich August Winkler<\/p>\n
\u201cThe kind of thing I find particularly shameful in post-war German history,\u201d a friend reports, \u201cis that after 1945 the Federal Republic refused to provide the usual military widow\u2019s pension to Caroline von Stauffenberg.\u201d \u201cStauffenberg?\u201d I said. \u201cHer husband, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg,” she explained, \u201cattempted to assassinate Hitler by setting off a bomb at the dictator\u2019s military headquarters in East Prussia on 20 July 1944. Stauffenberg is honored in Germany today, but he was for a long time after the war — like Thomas Mann, Marlene Dietrich, every deserter from the Wehrmacht, and so many other Germans — regarded with contempt and widely considered to be a traitor to his country. I wonder how he would have been treated at a place like the Technical University of Munich.\u201d<\/p>\n
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19 M\u00c4RZ 2004, FREITAG, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n
\u201eDeutschlands Schattenseite ist sein Beamtentum – und alle deutschen Professoren und Spitzenadministratoren an den Universit\u00e4ten sind Beamte\u201c – 12<\/p>\n
\u201eHeinz-Ludger Borgert, Leiter Bundesarchiv:
\n\u201aDas ist im vorliegenden Falle besonders betr\u00fcblich, zumal ja gerade auch die Verf\u00fcgung wegen Fristablauf im Falle eines Mordes so h\u00e4tte gar nicht getroffen werden k\u00f6nnen.’<\/p>\n
Frage:
\n\u201aJa, weil es gibt doch bei Mord gar keine Fristabl\u00e4ufe?’<\/p>\n
Heinz-Ludger Borgert, Leiter Bundesarchiv:
\n\u201aJa, genau, normalerweise g\u00e4be es bei Mord gar keine Fristabl\u00e4ufe, weil es gar nicht verj\u00e4hrt, also k\u00f6nnte man auch nicht wegen Fristablauf \u201ezdA\u201c verf\u00fcgen\u2019.\u201c<\/p>\n
(Fortsetzung folgt)<\/p>\n
Udo G\u00fcmpel and Rene Althammer, \u201eSS-Verbrecher unbelligt – wie die deutsche Justiz die Verfolgung von Straft\u00e4tern verhindert,\u201c Westdeutscher Rundfunk, \u201eKontraste\u201c-Sendung vom 15.01.2004.<\/p>\n
\u201cIch liebe (mein Land) mehr, als alle anderen L\u00e4nder auf der Welt, und genau aus diesem Grund bestehe ich auf das Recht, es ewig zu kritisieren.\u201c – James Baldwin<\/p>\n
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============================ENTRY NUMBER 00564:<\/p>\n
(Eine Deutsche Fassung steht weiter unten. German version below \u2013 German language character set required for correct display.)<\/p>\n
18 MARCH 2004, THURSDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n
\u201cGermany\u2019s dark side is its civil service – and German professors and top university administrators are all civil servants\u201d- 11<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Italian authorities raised a question seven years ago. Since that time, the district attorney\u2019s office and the judges in Germany have limited their actions to simply checking once a year to see if they should do anything.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe order came down in April this year: the case will be closed \u2018because the statute of limitations has expired\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
(To be continued)<\/p>\n
Udo Guempel and Rene Althammer, \u201cSS-Verbrecher unbelligt – wie die deutsche Justiz die Verfolgung von Straftaetern verhindert,\u201c Westdeutscher Rundfunk, \u201eKontraste,\u201c broadcast 15 January 2004.<\/p>\n
“I love (my country) more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” – James Baldwin<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was not the solution of the question of national unity which stood at the beginning of the road to catastrophe (for Germany), but the failure to settle the question of freedom.\u201d – German Historian Heinrich August Winkler<\/p>\n
\u201cThe kind of thing I find particularly shameful in post-war German history,\u201d a friend reports, \u201cis that after 1945 the Federal Republic refused to provide the usual military widow\u2019s pension to Caroline von Stauffenberg.\u201d \u201cStauffenberg?\u201d I said. \u201cHer husband, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg,” she explained, \u201cattempted to assassinate Hitler by setting off a bomb at the dictator\u2019s military headquarters in East Prussia on 20 July 1944. Stauffenberg is honored in Germany today, but he was for a long time after the war — like Thomas Mann, Marlene Dietrich, every deserter from the Wehrmacht, and so many other Germans — regarded with contempt and widely considered to be a traitor to his country. I wonder how he would have been treated at a place like the Technical University of Munich.\u201d<\/p>\n
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18 M\u00c4RZ 2004, DONNERSTAG, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n
\u201eDeutschlands Schattenseite ist sein Beamtentum – und alle deutschen Professoren und Spitzenadministratoren an den Universit\u00e4ten sind Beamte\u201c – 11<\/p>\n
\u201eVor sieben Jahren kam die Anfrage aus Italien: Seitdem bestand die T\u00e4tigkeit der Staatsanw\u00e4lte und Richter offensichtlich nur darin, einmal pro Jahr zu pr\u00fcfen, ob man nicht doch noch t\u00e4tig werden m\u00fcsse.<\/p>\n
Die Verf\u00fcgung kam im April dieses Jahres: der Fall wird endg\u00fcltig weggelegt: \u201aWegen Fristablaufs offensichtlich erledigt.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n
(Fortsetzung folgt)<\/p>\n
Udo G\u00fcmpel and Rene Althammer, \u201eSS-Verbrecher unbelligt – wie die deutsche Justiz die Verfolgung von Straft\u00e4tern verhindert,\u201c Westdeutscher Rundfunk, \u201eKontraste\u201c-Sendung vom 15.01.2004.<\/p>\n
\u201cIch liebe (mein Land) mehr, als alle anderen L\u00e4nder auf der Welt, und genau aus diesem Grund bestehe ich auf das Recht, es ewig zu kritisieren.\u201c – James Baldwin<\/p>\n
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============================ENTRY NUMBER 00563:<\/p>\n
(Eine Deutsche Fassung steht weiter unten. German version below \u2013 German language character set required for correct display.)<\/p>\n
17 MARCH 2004, WEDNESDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n
\u201cGermany\u2019s dark side is its civil service – and German professors and top university administrators are all civil servants\u201d- 10<\/p>\n
\u201cSeven years have gone by since investigators were given the case of Hans Schiffmann. No charges have been filed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat has the German justice system done during this time? We were hoping to find an answer in the federal archives, and we did. This is Hans Schiffman\u2019s file.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe file is proof of complete inactivity on the part of the German authorities – a justice system scandal.\u201d<\/p>\n
(To be continued)<\/p>\n
Udo Guempel and Rene Althammer, \u201cSS-Verbrecher unbelligt – wie die deutsche Justiz die Verfolgung von Straftaetern verhindert,\u201c Westdeutscher Rundfunk, \u201eKontraste,\u201c broadcast 15 January 2004.<\/p>\n
“I love (my country) more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” – James Baldwin<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was not the solution of the question of national unity which stood at the beginning of the road to catastrophe (for Germany), but the failure to settle the question of freedom.\u201d – German Historian Heinrich August Winkler<\/p>\n
\u201cThe kind of thing I find particularly shameful in post-war German history,\u201d a friend reports, \u201cis that after 1945 the Federal Republic refused to provide the usual military widow\u2019s pension to Caroline von Stauffenberg.\u201d \u201cStauffenberg?\u201d I said. \u201cHer husband, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg,” she explained, \u201cattempted to assassinate Hitler by setting off a bomb at the dictator\u2019s military headquarters in East Prussia on 20 July 1944. Stauffenberg is honored in Germany today, but he was for a long time after the war — like Thomas Mann, Marlene Dietrich, every deserter from the Wehrmacht, and so many other Germans — regarded with contempt and widely considered to be a traitor to his country. I wonder how he would have been treated at a place like the Technical University of Munich.\u201d<\/p>\n
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17 M\u00c4RZ 2004, MITTWOCH, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n
\u201eDeutschlands Schattenseite ist sein Beamtentum – und alle deutschen Professoren und Spitzenadministratoren an den Universit\u00e4ten sind Beamte\u201c – 10<\/p>\n
\u201eSieben Jahre sind vergangen, seitdem die Zentrale Ermittlungsstelle den Fall Hans Schiffmann auf den Tisch bekam. Anklage wurde bisher nicht erhoben.<\/p>\n
Was hat die deutsche Justiz in dieser Zeit getan? Eine Antwort darauf hoffen wir im Bundesarchiv zu finden. Wir haben Erfolg: Hier liegt die Ermittlungsakte Hans Schiffmann.<\/p>\n
Die Akte, so m\u00fcssen wir erkennen, ist der Beweis totaler Unt\u00e4tigkeit – ein Justizskandal.\u201c<\/p>\n
(Fortsetzung folgt)<\/p>\n
Udo G\u00fcmpel and Rene Althammer, \u201eSS-Verbrecher unbelligt – wie die deutsche Justiz die Verfolgung von Straft\u00e4tern verhindert,\u201c Westdeutscher Rundfunk, \u201eKontraste\u201c-Sendung vom 15.01.2004.<\/p>\n
\u201cIch liebe (mein Land) mehr, als alle anderen L\u00e4nder auf der Welt, und genau aus diesem Grund bestehe ich auf das Recht, es ewig zu kritisieren.\u201c – James Baldwin<\/p>\n
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============================ENTRY NUMBER 00562:<\/p>\n
(Eine Deutsche Fassung steht weiter unten. German version below \u2013 German language character set required for correct display.)<\/p>\n
16 MARCH 2004, TUESDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n
\u201cGermany\u2019s dark side is its civil service – and German professors and top university administrators are all civil servants\u201d- 9<\/p>\n
\u201cIn theory, such cases are quite simple. With Hans Schiffmann, though, the authorities in Ludwigsburg seem to have forgotten to hand the proceedings over to the district attorney, even though the German Federal Crime Office (BKA) requested their assistance seven years ago:<\/p>\n
\u201cKurt Schrimm, Head of the Central Office for the Prosecution of Nazi War Crimes:
\n\u2018Schiffman\u2019s name came to our attention in 1996 through a question from the Federal Crime Office. They informed us that the Italian authorities, among others, were looking for a man named Hans Schiffmann, who had allegedly committed war crimes.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n
(To be continued)<\/p>\n
Udo Guempel and Rene Althammer, \u201cSS-Verbrecher unbelligt – wie die deutsche Justiz die Verfolgung von Straftaetern verhindert,\u201c Westdeutscher Rundfunk, \u201eKontraste,\u201c broadcast 15 January 2004.<\/p>\n
“I love (my country) more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” – James Baldwin<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was not the solution of the question of national unity which stood at the beginning of the road to catastrophe (for Germany), but the failure to settle the question of freedom.\u201d – German Historian Heinrich August Winkler<\/p>\n
\u201cThe kind of thing I find particularly shameful in post-war German history,\u201d a friend reports, \u201cis that after 1945 the Federal Republic refused to provide the usual military widow\u2019s pension to Caroline von Stauffenberg.\u201d \u201cStauffenberg?\u201d I said. \u201cHer husband, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg,” she explained, \u201cattempted to assassinate Hitler by setting off a bomb at the dictator\u2019s military headquarters in East Prussia on 20 July 1944. Stauffenberg is honored in Germany today, but he was for a long time after the war — like Thomas Mann, Marlene Dietrich, every deserter from the Wehrmacht, and so many other Germans — regarded with contempt and widely considered to be a traitor to his country. I wonder how he would have been treated at a place like the Technical University of Munich.\u201d<\/p>\n
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16 M\u00c4RZ 2004, DIENSTAG, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n
\u201eDeutschlands Schattenseite ist sein Beamtentum – und alle deutschen Professoren und Spitzenadministratoren an den Universit\u00e4ten sind Beamte\u201c – 9<\/p>\n
\u201eIm Prinzip ganz einfach. Doch im Fall Hans Schiffmann verschlief man die Abgabe des Verfahrens an die Staatsanwaltschaft, obwohl das deutsche Bundeskriminalamtbereits vor sieben Jahren um Amtshilfe gebeten hatte:<\/p>\n
Kurt Schrimm, Leiter Zentralstelle zur Verfolgung von NS-Kriegsverbrechen:
\n\u201aDer Name Schiffmann wurde uns bekannt im Jahre 1996 und zwar durch eine Anfrage des Bundeskriminalamts, in dem sie uns mitteilten, dass die italienischen Beh\u00f6rden unter anderem einen Mann namens Hans Schiffmann suchen, der Kriegsverbrechen begangen haben soll.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n
(Fortsetzung folgt)<\/p>\n
Udo G\u00fcmpel and Rene Althammer, \u201eSS-Verbrecher unbelligt – wie die deutsche Justiz die Verfolgung von Straft\u00e4tern verhindert,\u201c Westdeutscher Rundfunk, \u201eKontraste\u201c-Sendung vom 15.01.2004.<\/p>\n
\u201cIch liebe (mein Land) mehr, als alle anderen L\u00e4nder auf der Welt, und genau aus diesem Grund bestehe ich auf das Recht, es ewig zu kritisieren.\u201c – James Baldwin<\/p>\n
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============================ENTRY NUMBER 00561:<\/p>\n
(Eine Deutsche Fassung steht weiter unten. German version below \u2013 German language character set required for correct display.)<\/p>\n
15 MARCH 2004, MONDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n
\u201cGermany\u2019s dark side is its civil service – and German professors and top university administrators are all civil servants\u201d- 8<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is now up to the German justice system to take up the case of Hans Schiffmann, but that hasn\u2019t happened. The authorities here in Ludwigsburg should actually be prosecuting all cases of crimes committed by the Nazis. The senior official explains how this is supposed to work:<\/p>\n
\u201cKurt Schrimm, Head of the Central Office for the Prosecution of Nazi War Crimes:
\n\u2018If it\u2019s a case of a war crime, then it\u2019s handed over to the German district attorney responsible for the place in question. If it\u2019s not a war crime, then the preliminary investigation is done here before being turned over to the district attorney.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n
(To be continued)<\/p>\n
Udo Guempel and Rene Althammer, \u201cSS-Verbrecher unbelligt – wie die deutsche Justiz die Verfolgung von Straftaetern verhindert,\u201c Westdeutscher Rundfunk, \u201eKontraste,\u201c broadcast 15 January 2004.<\/p>\n
“I love (my country) more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” – James Baldwin<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was not the solution of the question of national unity which stood at the beginning of the road to catastrophe (for Germany), but the failure to settle the question of freedom.\u201d – German Historian Heinrich August Winkler<\/p>\n
\u201cThe kind of thing I find particularly shameful in post-war German history,\u201d a friend reports, \u201cis that after 1945 the Federal Republic refused to provide the usual military widow\u2019s pension to Caroline von Stauffenberg.\u201d \u201cStauffenberg?\u201d I said. \u201cHer husband, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg,” she explained, \u201cattempted to assassinate Hitler by setting off a bomb at the dictator\u2019s military headquarters in East Prussia on 20 July 1944. Stauffenberg is honored in Germany today, but he was for a long time after the war — like Thomas Mann, Marlene Dietrich, every deserter from the Wehrmacht, and so many other Germans — regarded with contempt and widely considered to be a traitor to his country. I wonder how he would have been treated at a place like the Technical University of Munich.\u201d<\/p>\n
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15 M\u00c4RZ 2004, MONTAG, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n
\u201eDeutschlands Schattenseite ist sein Beamtentum – und alle deutschen Professoren und Spitzenadministratoren an den Universit\u00e4ten sind Beamte\u201c – 8<\/p>\n
\u201eGegen Hans Schiffmann muss schon die deutsche Justiz t\u00e4tig werden, doch das ist bis heute nicht geschehen. Diese Beh\u00f6rde in Ludwigsburg sollte eigentlich alle F\u00e4lle von NS-Verbrechen verfolgen. Der Beh\u00f6rdenleiter erkl\u00e4rt, wie das funktionieren sollte:<\/p>\n
Kurt Schrimm, Leiter Zentralstelle zur Verfolgung von NS-Kriegsverbrechen:
\n\u201aIst es ein Kriegsverbrechen, dann wird es an die \u00f6rtlich zust\u00e4ndige Staatsanwaltschaft abgegeben, ist es kein Kriegsverbrechen, dann wird hier das Vorermittlungsverfahren weitergef\u00fchrt bis zur Abgabe an die Staatsanwaltschaft\u2019.\u201c<\/p>\n
(Fortsetzung folgt)<\/p>\n
Udo G\u00fcmpel and Rene Althammer, \u201eSS-Verbrecher unbelligt – wie die deutsche Justiz die Verfolgung von Straft\u00e4tern verhindert,\u201c Westdeutscher Rundfunk, \u201eKontraste\u201c-Sendung vom 15.01.2004.<\/p>\n
\u201cIch liebe (mein Land) mehr, als alle anderen L\u00e4nder auf der Welt, und genau aus diesem Grund bestehe ich auf das Recht, es ewig zu kritisieren.\u201c – James Baldwin<\/p>\n
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