The West German prosecutor here issued an appeal today to former inmates at the Buchenwald concentration camp to report whatever evidence they might possess against any or all of 16 former top Buchenwald staff members suspected of having been implicated in the murder of Buchenwald inmates.
All 16 had previously been sentenced by an American tribunal, which had tried them in 1947 for crimes against foreign nationals. The local prosecutor has started an investigation into crimes committed by the same men against German nationals. Information is to be addressed to the Landsgericht, Justizgebauede, Appelhofplatz, Cologne, and is to use the reference number “24-Js-54061-Z.”
The suspects are Wolfgang Otto, Otto Barnewald, Prince Josias zu Waldeck, August Bender, Anton Bergmeister, Arthur. Diezsch, Hans Eisele, Philip Grimm, Heinrich Roscher, Gustav Heigel, Peter Merker, Guido Reimer, Helmut Roscher, Albert Schwarz, Walter Wendt and Franz Zinnecker. All are former members of Buchenwald’s administrative and supervisory staff.
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