An Austrian court announced here today a ruling that the Gestapo officer who arrested Anne Frank and her family in Amsterdam in 1944 will not have to face trial for war crimes in the arrest.
The court said that an investigation into the charges against Karl Silberbauer, an Austrian citizen, had been dropped because evidence to charge him with war crimes was “not sufficient after such a long time. ” The former Nazi has admitted that he supervised the arrest of the Jewish girl, her parents, sister and four other Jews.
The former Gestapo officer still faces a disciplinary investigation on charges that he hid his role in the Frank arrests when he was reinstated as a member of the Vienna police force in 1954. He remains suspended from his post as a police inspector.
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