Deutsche Welle | 17Sep2009 | Susan Houlton
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4701493,00.html
Spain issues arrest warrants for
three alleged ex-Nazi guards
A Spanish National Court
judge has issued international arrest warrants for three alleged former
guards at Nazi concentration camps, who are charged with complicity in
genocide and crimes against humanity.
International arrest warrants were issued on Thursday by Judge Ismael
Moreno, of Spain's National Court, for three men alleged to have worked
as prison guards at Nazi concentration camps.
The three, all in their mid 80's, are Johann Leprich and Anton
Tittjung, both believed to live in the United States, and Josias Kumpf,
who is thought to live in Austria.
The warrants were issued after a Spanish lawsuit was
filed by survivors of the World War II concentration camps Mauthausen,
Sachsenhausen and Flossenberg.
According to Moreno, some 7,000 Spaniards were incarcerated in
Mauthausen where an estimated 4,300 of them perished.
The lawsuit also targets 89 year-old Ukrainian-born John
Demjanjuk. However, Moreno decided not to indict him as he is already
under investigation in Germany, where he is facing charges relating to
the deaths of 29,000 Jews at the Sobibor camp in what is now Poland.
According to the court document the alleged former guards
participated in the persecution of Jews, Spanish and European
nationals, and other groups. They are charged with crimes against
humanity and genocide.
mo/dpa/AFP
Editor: Susan Houlton
[W.Z. We have earlier archived three articles on Spain's interest in promoting the Holocaust Industry:
Spain to seek extradition of Nazi war
criminals from US bignewsnetwork.com, 17Jul2008; IANS
Lawyers ask Spanish court to charge 4 alleged
ex-guards at Nazi camps Haaretz.com, 25Jun2008; Associated Press [W.Z.]
Civil rights group wants John Demjanjuk
extradited to Spain for war crimes Cleveland Plain Dealer, 24Jun2008; J.
Caniglia ]