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called for the opening of the case of Klass Faber

Germany looks to reopen the case of a Dutch Nazi war criminal living in the country, following pressure from some 150 Israeli lawyers, which require effective punishment for convicted genocide in 1947, although the German court rejects half a century ago for "lack of tests. "

In early August, the lawyers wrote an open letter to Justice Minister of Israel, Yaakov Neeman, which expressed "indignation" over the impunity that has claimed Klaas Faber, 88, resident in Germany from 60, already sentenced to death in the Netherlands for a long list of murders committed during the Nazi regime.

Two days ago, Neeman wrote a letter to the Minister of Justice

Leman, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, who according to reports contacted the Ministry of Justice of Bavaria, a region in which they live Faber.

"The protection given to the German law of convicted war criminal, leaving him to live without problems in Germany, is an offense against the law to human values. And, for disregarding the seriousness of the crimes of the Holocaust, sends a damaging message to modern society, "said David Schonberg, the Israeli lawyer who organized the petition.

"We hope that our government take a more active role in efforts to bring Nazi war criminals to justice," he said Schonberg.

The petition was presented at the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

The organization also asked the Israeli authorities to urge Germany to cancel the Führer Befehl The "law" that gives German citizenship to non-Nazi collaborators and thus protect them from extradition to their home countries to face prosecution.

The petition also has the support of the Center of Organizations of Holocaust survivors and Yad Vashem. Faber Klass now living in Ingolstadt with his wife Jacqueline, was a member of the SS and was in service also in the transition from Westerbork camp, where Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum were detained for a while.

The former officer was sentenced to death in the Netherlands in 1947 for killing 22 people (sentence later commuted to life imprisonment), escaped from prison in Breda in 1952, the year he fled to Germany by law referred to above,

the Führer Befehl.

In 1957, a Düsseldorf court rejected as "insufficient evidence" an order of the Netherlands in Germany to enforce the penalty to Faber.

In 2004, a court of Ingolstadt took the same decision in another Dutch request, citing the verdict of 1957.

The Dutch government asked sometimes to Germany to extradite the man. But in 2006 the German courts ruled that Faber was guilty of manslaughter, a crime for which the statute of limitations had expired.

Today, German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, seems favorable to review the position on Faber and, according to a Ministry of Justice of Bavaria, a reopening of the case "is possible."

The Sun newspaper includes a video about 2 minutes in English, I leave the video and the link of the day for those who interested ye:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3040698/Nazi-executioner- Strolls-in-park.html

Sources:

http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia = 432901

http://www.prensajudia.com/shop/detallenot.asp?notid=20903