From Perpetrator to Cold-War Pawn: The Atrocities and Trial of Heinz Barth
Drawing on extensive documentation generated by East Germany's secret police (Stasi), this article examines the case of Heinz Barth, a participant in World War II massacres at Lidice, Czechoslovakia and Oradour, France. The Stasi's lengthy investigation and interrogation of Barth in the 1980s affords rare insight into the motivations of a perpetrator who was not involved in killing Jews or POWs, and reveals the arbitrariness of the secret police in bringing former Nazis to justice. Barth's 1983 trial in East Berlin further illustrates how the East German regime's political goals influenced its judicial handling of the Nazi past.
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The Austrian Connection: SS and Police Leader Odilo Globocnik and His Staff in the Lublin District
The Office of the SS and Police Leader in the Lublin District under Odilo Globocnik contributed to two objectives of Nazi rule in Poland: the murder of the Jews and "Germanization." Globocnik's enormous activism is often explained by his socialization and the experience of failure as Gauleiter of Vienna. His staff in Lublin has received little attention. Austrians occupied almost all important positions on that staff. Decisive for their recruitment, however, was not their origin but their affiliation with Globocnik's network when the Nazi movement had been illegal in Austria. These were not just any men, but a group of perpetrators with very close personal and ideological ties.
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