The “Sudeten German Association,” which is the representative body of 2,000,000 ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia who were expelled to West Germany after the war, has publicly declared its solidarity with Hermann Krumey, the ex-SS leader arrested here for having been instrumental in the deportation of several hundred thousand Hungarian Jews to the Nazi death camps.
A statement in which the politically influential organization refuses to disavow Krumey was adopted by the presidium of the Waldeck “Sudeten German Association,” of which Krumey has been chairman for several years. In the town of Korbach a dozen miles from the huge concentration camp he obtained a governmental refugee loan and therewith built up a prospering business as druggist and merchant, without changing his name or making any special secret of his record.
For a time Krumey was the agent in Vienna of the notorious SS Colonel Karl Adolf Eichmann, chief exterminator of European Jewry. In March 1944, he was assigned to Budapest, where he selected the Budapest “Jewish Council, “arranged the mass deportations to Auschwitz and signed the notices ordering Jews to appear for “resettlement.”
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