One of the attorneys defending the 22 former Auschwitz guards now on trial in Frankfurt was accused today of having himself helped to condemn victims to Nazi concentration camps.
Dr. Herman Stolting of Frankfurt called the charge, made by the Polish Organization of Nazi victims, “pure nonsense.” The group asserted that Stolting persecuted many Poles and demanded severe sentences against them as a public prosecutor under the Nazi regime. The group said that in May 1942, Stolting had prosecuted a defendant in Brom berg in Nazi occupied Poland who eventually was sentenced to death.
Stolting admitted he was a public prosecutor in Bromberg from June 1941 to October 1942, but insisted he had nothing to do with political cases. To the charge that, as prosecutor, he had demanded that an accused man be sent to the Mauthausen death camp, the attorney said: “I did not even know that there was a concentration camp in Mauthausen until the end of the war.” He is defending Robert Mulka and Karl Joccker, two former SS adjutants at Auschwitz, and Emil Bednaerk, a former Auschwitz trustee, in the Frankfurt trial.
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