The International Auschwitz Committee lodged a complaint with the Hessian Ministry of Justice today against the repeated delays in the prosecution of Hermann Krumey, whom the committee called "a key figure in the Nazi extermination program."
According to the committee, Krumey was a principal assistant of SS Commander Adolf Eichmann, during the Nazi regime. The latter, with Krumey’s aid, was said to have been responsible for the murder of 450,000 Hungarian Jews as well as for the murder of 88 children in the Czechoslovakian town of Lidice, which the Nazis wiped out.
Krumey was arrested twice, in April, 1957, and in August, 1958. Each time, however, he was released under court orders. The committee expressed fears, in its letter, that, unless Krumey was brought to trial soon, he might escape abroad.
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