Survivors bitter over Nazis’ release
NZPA-Reuter Amsterdam Dutch resistance veterans and Jewish survivors gathered at an Amsterdam cemetery on Sunday to demonstrate their bitterness at their government’s release of two Nazi war criminals convicted of sending Jews to concentration camps. Usually about 800 people attend the annual graveyard ceremony to mark the liberation in January 1945 of Auschwitz concentration camp, where hundreds of thousands of Jews and Nazi opponents died. On this anniversary the crowd was swollen to about 2500, the police
estimated. The anniversary came two days after the Dutch Government freed Franz Fischer and Ferdinand aus der Fuenten, jailed for 43 years in a Dutch prison for war crimes. Fischer, now aged 87, registered and deported 13,000 Jews from the Hague area as a noncommissioned officer. Aus der Fuenten, now 79, administered from 1941 all deportations of Jews from the Netherlands. Some 100,000 Jews from the Netherlands, 80 per cent of the community, died in the war, many after being deported to Auschwitz in then Nazioccupied Poland.
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