A 52-year-old Vienna policeman has been suspended from duty after he admitted he was one of the Nazi officers who arrested Anne Frank and her family in wartime Amsterdam, the government disclosed today.
The Interior Ministry identified the policeman as Karl Silberbauer, a detective attached to police headquarters in Vienna’s first district. Investigation of his World War II activities is under way.
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