Seven Gestapo officials have been indicted here for deporting at least 3,655 Munich Jews to death camps during the Nazi regime Only 150 returned after the war.
The indictment charges the seven, all of whom were assigned to the “Jewish Section” of the Gestapo, with “being accessories to the deprivation of liberty” and with blackmail. The trial will probably be held in the summer.
The district attorney has refrained from preferring charges of murder, or being accessories to murder, because it cannot be proved, according to him, that the seven were aware of the purpose, of the deportations. He further holds that the Gestapo officials’ criminal intent was directed not to their Jewish victims’ annihilation, but merely to their removal from Germany. The Munich indictment follows a recent ruling of the German Supreme Court that deportations were an illegal act.
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