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J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR 379<br />

By the spring <strong>of</strong> 1945 the unit was heading to Austria with the<br />

intention <strong>of</strong> surrendering to the Americans rather than to the Red<br />

Army.<br />

But first the Wiking Division, led in the early days by General<br />

Felix Steiner, who is still revered among neo-Nazis, decided to clean<br />

up the evidence against it and eliminate the slave labourers who had<br />

dug its fortifications and defensive lines.<br />

According to a statement issued by the regional court in<br />

Duisburg, where Mr. Storms has spent most <strong>of</strong> his retirement, 57 <strong>of</strong><br />

the 58 victims were killed near the Austrian village <strong>of</strong> Deutsch<br />

Schuetzen. The mass grave there was excavated in 1995 by the<br />

Austrian Jewish association and the bodies given proper funerals.”<br />

For comparison: Winston Churchill, the main responsible for the<br />

bombardment <strong>of</strong> Dresden, which turned a city overflowing with masses<br />

<strong>of</strong> refugees into a sea <strong>of</strong> flames, was presented the Karl prize <strong>of</strong> the city<br />

<strong>of</strong> Aachen ten years later!<br />

11.2. The OSI<br />

Jimmy Carter, president <strong>of</strong> the United States <strong>of</strong> America from January<br />

1977 through January 1981, stressed again and again that his major<br />

goal was the establishment <strong>of</strong> human rights. We will not deny that Carter,<br />

while in <strong>of</strong>fice as well as later on, has many achievements to his credit.<br />

He also bears the responsibility, however, for a political decision<br />

which was to have horrible consequences for many innocent people. In<br />

1979 he approved the establishment <strong>of</strong> the Office <strong>of</strong> Special Investigations,<br />

which had been requested a year earlier by Elizabeth Holtzmann,<br />

a Jewish congresswoman. The task <strong>of</strong> this <strong>of</strong>fice, operating within the<br />

U.S. Ministry <strong>of</strong> Justice, was the detection <strong>of</strong> “Nazi criminals” on<br />

American soil.<br />

The German edition <strong>of</strong> the internet encyclopedia Wikipedia describes<br />

the OSI in the following terms: 1114<br />

“The OSI was attributed greater authority than any other department.<br />

Its agents could carry out themselves any necessary steps<br />

– from the initial investigations up to an eventual trial in court –<br />

1114 http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_<strong>of</strong>_Special_Investigations

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