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by DIMITRIS K. APOSTOLOPOULOS*
The prosecution of Germans, who were responsible for cruel reprisals and inhumane crimes against the Greek people during the Occupation, is one of the most difficult chapters in the history of the first post-war period. The guilty, with few exceptions, were not punished for their actions. From the early 1950s, the desire of both the successor to the Third Reich, the Federal Republic of Germany, and Greece to settle the issue of war criminals to the benefit of bilateral relations became clear. The two sides, however, differed on the method. Athens agreed to refer the cases to the German authorities on the condition that the German Judiciary would take over the matter. For its part, Bonn preferred to close the issue once and for all with a political decision of the Greek government, without judicial proceedings.
In 1952 (with Law 2058) the Greek Justice had already sent about two hundred related cases to the German authorities for further prosecution and it still had about six hundred war criminal cases remaining. In December 1954, Athens proposed to refer another 250 cases, but Bonn, which wanted to close the issue without its own actions, rejected the proposal - arguing that the implementation of the Greek proposal would not only significantly burden the German Judiciary, but it would also cause publicity. In the bilateral negotiations of June 1956, Germany requested that the prosecution of war criminals by the Greek authorities be temporarily suspended in order to prepare the German Judiciary to settle the matter.
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At a special event, held at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace in Bucharest, on 11.3.14, the President of the European Jewish Congress EJC Moshe Kantor received Romania's highest state award, the "Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit". The Grand Cross was awarded to Mr. Cantor by Romanian President Traian Basescu, in the presence of Romanian officials, diplomats and presidents of Jewish Communities from all over Europe. At this event, Greek Jewry was represented by the president of KISE, Mr. Benjamin Albala, who was invited by the president of the EJC.
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At the age of 99, the number one wanted Nazi war criminal, Hungarian László Tsatari, died of pneumonia in a Budapest hospital on Saturday, his lawyer Gabor Horvath announced today. - Details
The results of a survey in Poland are shocking, where it was found that 44,1% of young people in Warsaw would not want to have a Jewish neighbor and 40,1% would not want to have Jewish classmates. The survey showed the lack of education of young people about the crimes committed by the Nazis in their country.
The poll was conducted in March 2013 among a sample of 1.250 students in 20 secondary schools in the capital by the Homo Homini institute. The survey also shows that 60,7% of young people surveyed would not want a Jewish partner.
The research, which took place in schools near the capital Warsaw, was conducted in the context of the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, when hundreds of imprisoned Jews resisted the Nazis' attempt to transfer the remaining inhabitants of the ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp. The poorly equipped resistance was crushed by German troops under the command of Jürgen Stroop.
About 13.000 Jews were killed in the ghetto during the uprising, which began on April 19, 1943. Of the remaining 50.000 inhabitants of the ghetto, most were arrested and sent to extermination camps, mainly Treblinka.
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According to what was shown by the television network, the five thousand migrants who were temporarily hired to cope with the Christmas workload were being monitored by an organization suspected of having close links with the Far Right. The company's name is Hess Security and is an open reference to Rudolf Hess, Hitler's right-hand man, while its "employees" dress exclusively in Thor Steinar clothing, an official neo-Nazi brand that Amazon has pulled from its catalog. Diana Lebl and Peter Oneken, the two ARD journalists, did not count the threatening messages sent to them by the company's security "responsibles" and managed to record a tragic situation: thousands of people from all over Europe and especially from countries affected by crisis like Spain, crammed into accommodation around Amazon's central warehouse, underpaid and uninsured, forced to work long overtime and subject to prison-like controls.
Regarding the employment of neo-Nazis to monitor employees, the company's representative in Germany Ulrike Stecker said that "although the contract with the security company was not signed by Amazon, we are looking into the allegations about the behavior of the guards and will take appropriate measures immediately . We do not tolerate discrimination or intimidation."
(TA NEA, 18.2.2013)
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