First Auschwitz trial of Anne Frank family

neubrandenburg - The first Auschwitz trial on the deportation and murder of the family of Anne Frank is today, more than seventy years after the Second World War started in Germany. In court in Neubrandenburg appeared the 95-year-old suspect and former SS officer Hubert Z. not. He was reportedly with hypertension and suicidal tendencies at home.

There were great expectations in the process one of the last trials of Auschwitz. In the courtroom were young people present from eyewitness still a chance to get something about the crimes to learn the Nazis.

But East German Hubert Z. was sitting at home, according to his lawyer. The judge sent a court physician and a psychiatrist to him, but they could not rate fast enough that the suspect could have come anyway. In two weeks, will resume the process.

At five in September 1944 by train from the Dutch camp Westerbork to Auschwitz arrived. There were hundreds of Jews, including Anne Frank, her sister Margot, Otto father and mother Edith. At that time, Hubert Z. nurse at Auschwitz. Under current German law, only his presence as SS in the extermination camp enough for a conviction.

Mother Edith Frank arrived at Auschwitz killed. Anne and her sister Margot were further deported to Bergen Belsen camp, where they were murdered. Only father Otto survived Auschwitz. He was later in Amsterdam publish the diary of the world-famous daughter Anne.

Hubert Z. is suspected of complicity in the massacre of 3681 people who came to Auschwitz with fourteen trains. Among them were 1019 people from the Netherlands, of whom 498 men, 442 women and 79 children.