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Germany finally pays tribute to first Nazi hunter Fritz Bauer

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Germany finally pays tribute to first Nazi hunter Fritz Bauer Empty Germany finally pays tribute to first Nazi hunter Fritz Bauer

Post by Guest Sun Feb 28, 2016 8:03 pm

Gay and Jewish, he faced death threats for his activities in a post-war state where Third Reich attitudes endured


He was gay, Jewish, and a high-profile German state prosecutor in 1960s West Germany. But it was his dogged determination to bring Hitler’s henchmen to justice that meant Fritz Bauer was ostracised by politicians, feared denunciation as a “criminal homosexual” and received constant death threats.
Bauer, who was found mysteriously drowned in his bathtub in 1968, was Germany’s first Nazi hunter. He brought Adolf Eichmann to trial and subsequent execution in Israel in 1962 and put Nazis who ran Auschwitz in court for the first time in Germany the following year.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/germany-finally-pays-tribute-to-the-first-nazi-hunter-fritz-bauer-auschwitz-nazism-adolf-eichmann-a6901756.html

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