Paul Vantienen, a Dutchman who had served in Hitler’s SS during the war, today appealed a six-month prison sentence imposed upon him by a court at Utrecht for publishing and selling anti-Semitic works.
Vantienen is the author of a book in German, published in West Germany, defending Hitler. He had used the alias of Wilhelm Asenbach as the author of that work. Prior to his arrest and conviction here, he had been in Spain, assisting the notorious Belgian Nazi and war criminal, Leon Degrelle.
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