lthough Silberbauer identity was known, the details of his life after World War II were to be clarified. It was learned that he worked as a policeman in his native Austria without arousing suspicion. Then the track was lost and it seemed that life was unremarkable. However, the German publication, who has consulted archives in the U.S., recalls that it was located in 1963 by Simon Wiesenthal, the Jewish survivor of Hitler's extermination specialized in prosecuting Nazis.
File Wiensenthal Center notes that Silberbauer was arrested, suspended from office and investigated in 1964. Shortly thereafter, would be released without charge because "he knew nothing of the Holocaust." Focus research added, however, that once inside the secret services of the then West Germany, "used his good contacts with old comrades in arms," \u200b\u200bsaid Peter-Ferdinand Koch, author of the paper.
"Former Nazi worked where they wanted after the war. They came to ministers, diplomats, including Foreign Minister. That national intelligence services do not meditate on his own past is regrettable, "said Thomas Heppener, director of the Anne Frank in Germany.
In the Netherlands, Silberbauer name evokes both the horror and the certainty that the Diary of Anne Frank is true. Unable to find out who betrayed the Frank family hid in a canal house in Amsterdam. But the entrance of the Nazi police, with his men, in the month of August in the building is part of the country's history. They symbolize the brutal occupation by Hitler's troops. And also the hope of a teenage diary, rescued from the soil by Miep Gies (the neighbor who helped them), which describes with equal vigor the pain of bondage and the hope of freedom.
Source: http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/policia/nazi/arresto/Ana/Frank/Amsterdam/fue/despues/espia/Republica/Federal/Alemania/elpepuint/20110411elpepuint_7/Tes
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