Dr. Helmut Stellrecht, one-time deputy to Nazi Party philosopher and education chief, Alfred Rosenberg, was fined 22,000 marks by a denazification court here yesterday for his activities during the Nazi era. He was also deprived of his civil rights for a period of three years.
The court, which only has the power of punishment through fine, deprivation of rights and confiscation of property, is studying the possibility of confiscating some of his property. It seeks to establish how much of his property was acquired by virtue of his position of prominence in the Nazi world.
Stellrecht, who was in charge of the program of “spiritual education” of all Nazi Party members and who thus perpetuated the Rosenberg myths of racial superiority, fled Berlin in 1945 to Southern Germany where a denazification tribunal cleared him in 1947. This verdict was later held to have been obtained through fraud and a new hearing set which ended in yesterday’s verdict.
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