The SS Totenkopf Case
Johann Leprich, Anton Tittjung,
Josias Kumpf and Ivan (John) Demjanjuk

Página Caso SS Totenkopf en Español On 19th June 2008, a criminal lawsuit was presented in the National Court on behalf of several survivors and families of Spanish victims of the National Socialist regime. After sixty years, these individuals come before the Spanish justice system for the first time, a system which has not hitherto acknowledged them as victims. In fact, as the Spanish state has never actually recognised its collaboration with the National Socialist regime of the Third Reich, no representative of the Spanish state has apologised to the victims. Owing to the type of proceedings initiated, this case represents particularly the Spanish victims of the Concentration Camps ("KL" - Konzentrationslager) of Mauthaussen, Sachsenhausen y Flossenbürg. On 9th June 2008, the Public Prosecutor's office of the National Court issued a report supporting the admission of the case, and determining that the Court had jurisdiction over it. The case was then admitted to the Central Investigative Court No. 2 of the National Court on 17th July 2008. This case may possibly be one of the last proceedings able to try those directly responsible for the crimes committed in the National Socialist extermination camps, who exemplify the impunity enjoyed throughout Europe by most of the perpetrators of these serious crimes. Reports | Central Investigative Court No. 2 of the National Court Press Releases | The Spanish question, the Axis Powers and Nuremberg The UN and the Spanish Question 60th Anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps Links

Reports

About the closing of the last possible case for the Spanish victims of the WWII extermination camps as a result of the recent amendment to the Organic Law of the Judicial Power Press Release, Equipo Nizkor, Madrid and Charleroi, 23Apr14 [ENG] Update on the Repercussions of Demjanjuk's Conviction in Germany, Spain and the United States. Radio Nizkor, 17May11 (Last Update 24May11) Communiqué on the Spanish ruling ordering the prosecution and the handing over of John Demjanjuk for crimes against humanity and complicity in genocide at KL Flossenbürg. Radio Nizkor, 11Jan11 (09m 10ss) Communiqué on the Spanish ruling ordering the prosecution and the handing over of John Demjanjuk for crimes against humanity and complicity in genocide at KL Flossenbürg. Equipo Nizkor, Madrid y Charleroi, 12Jan11 Comuniqué on the issue of arrest warrants for three members of the SS Totenkopf who served in concentration camps with Spanish victims. Equipo Nizkor, Madrid, 22sep09 Demjanjuk's detention leads to a reassessment of impunity in Europe. Radio Nikor, 04Jun09 (26m 08ss) Demjanjuk's detention leads to a reassessment of impunity in Europe. Radio Nizkor, 04Jun09 The first testimony of the survivors of Mauthausen Extermination Camp in the Spanish courts. Radio Nizkor, 25Apr09 (20m 49ss) The first testimony of the survivors of Mauthausen Extermination Camp in the Spanish courts. Equipo Nizkor, 01Apr09 List of individual plaintiffs in the case of the Spanish victims of the extermination camps of the Third Reich. Equipo Nizkor, 20Mar09 The lawsuit concerning the Spanish victims of the National Socialist camps is admitted to the courts. Equipo Nizkor communiqué, Madrid and Charleroi, 24Jul08. The Office of the Prosecutor of the Audiencia Nacional issues its report supporting the admission of the case concerning the Spanish victims of the concentration camps at Mauthausen, Sachsenhausen and Flossenbürg and opining that the Court has jurisdiction over the case. Equipo Nizkor, Charleroi and Madrid, 14Jul08 Communiqué requesting the Spanish Government to seek the extradition from the United States of the members of the SS Totenkopf-Sturmbann Johann Leprich, Anton Tittjung, Josias Kumpf and Iwan (John) Demjanjuk. Victims' Associations of Francoism and World War II, Madrid, 30jun08 A lawsuit has been filed with the Audiencia Nacional requesting the handover from the US of four members of SS Totenkopf-Sturmbann to enable them to be tried in the Spanish courts. By Gregorio Dionis, President Equipo Nizkor, Charleroi and Madrid, 19Jun08

Central Investigative Court No. 2 of the National Court

Text of the Ruling declaring admissible the complaint in the case of the Spanish victims of the National Socialist camps. Preliminary Proceedings 211/08 L, Central Investigative Court No. 2, National Court, Madrid, 17Jul08 Text of the report of the Prosecutor's Office of the National Court (Audiencia Nacional) supporting the admission of the case concerning the Spanish victims of the National Socialist concentration camps and confirming the jurisdiction of the Court. Prosecutor's Office of the National Court, Madrid, 09Jul08

Press releases

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Korea urges Japan to hold on to spirit of pacifist constitution Xinhua, Seoul, 14May15 [ENG] Japan's attempt to beautify wartime history through UNESCO doomed to fail By Xinhua writer Zhu Junqing, Xinhua, Beijing, 14May15 [ENG] Nazi concentration guards offered starving prisoners respite - only to execute them if they accepted By Rose Troup Buchanan, The Independent, London, 12May15 [ENG] Anti-fascist war has left good lesson for world: Chinese envoy Xinhua, United Nations, 05May15 [ENG] Abe's irresponsible remarks in U.S. trip draw domestic, international outcry Xinhua, Beijing, 04May15 [ENG] Int'l community disappointed by Abe's speech in U.S. Congress Xinhua, Beijing, 01May15 [ENG] Dolgov: West should urge Kiev to take concrete measures against neo-Nazis Itar Tass, Moscow, 01May15 [ENG] Programme Memorial and Liberation Events 2015 - Mauthausen, former sattelite-camps and places of Nazi terror Mauthausen Komitee Österreich, May15 [ENG] International liberation commemoration 2015 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BBC News, 11Mar09 In Germany, Whispers of 'Enough' at a War-Crimes Trial. New York Times, 05Feb09 Germans Corroborate Reports of Nazi Doctor's Death in Egypt. New York Times, 05Feb09 Alleged Nazi Mass Murderer Could Face Trial in Germany. Der Spiegel, 10Nov08 Alleged Nazis faces charges in Spanish court. Washington Post, US, 24Jun08 Spanish court asked to charge 4 alleged Nazis. By Daniel Walls, AP, Madrid, 24Jun08 Group seeks to have John Demjanjuk tried in Spain. By John Caniglia, Cleveland Metro, Us, 23Jun08 Wiesenthal Center Calls Upon Spanish Government to Extradite Former Concentration Camp Guards Identified in the United States. By Efraim Zuroff, The Simon Wiesenthal Center, Jerusalem, 23jun08 A lawsuit has been filed with the Audiencia Nacional requesting the handover from the US of four members of SS Totenkopf-Sturmbann to enable them to be tried in the Spanish courts. By Gregorio Dionis, President Equipo Nizkor, Charleroi and Madrid, 19jun08

The Spanish question, the Axis Powers and Nuremberg

The Spanish question Statement by the Department of State on the Spanish question. 04Mar46 Agreement Between the United States and Spain. Military Facilities in Spain, September 26, 1953. See also The UN and the Spanish Question Franco's Government and the Axis Powers Memorandum by the German Ambassador in Madrid 08Aug40 Letter From General Franco to Mussolini. 15Aug40 Letter From Mussolini to General Franco. 25Aug40 Notes of a Conversation Between the Fuehrer and the Spanish Minister of the Interior Serrano Suñer 17Sep40 Letter From Generalissimo Franco to Hitler. 22Sep40 Notes Covering the Interview Between the Fuehrer and Count Ciano in Berlin. 28Sep40 Letter From Serrano Suñer to Von Ribbentrop. 10Oct40 Notes on the Conversation Between the Fuehrer and the Caudillo at Hendaye. 23Oct40 German Foreign Office Memorandum October 31, 1940. 31Oct40 Telegram From the German Ambassador in Madrid to the Foreign Office in Berlin. 05Dec40 Telegram From the German Ambassador in Madrid to the Foreign Office in Berlin. 12Dec40 Letter From Hitler to Franco, February 6, 1941. Letter From General Franco to Hitler. 26Feb41 Secret Protocol Between the German and Spanish Governments. 10Feb43 Notes on Conversation Between General Franco and Ambassador Dieckhoff. 15Dec43 Nuremberg London Agreement of August 8th 1945 Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression. United States Printing Office. Washington, 1946. Charter of the Nürnberg International Military Tribunal. London, August 8, 1945 Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression. United States Printing Office. Washington, 1946. Opening Statement Before the International Military Tribunal. Robert H. Jackson, Chief of Counsel for the United States, Nuremberg, Germany, 22Nov1945 Closing Address Before the International Military Tribunal. Robert H. Jackson, Chief of Counsel for the United States, Nuremberg, Germany, 29Jul1946 International Military Trials Nürnberg. Opinion and Judgment of the International Military Tribunal for the Trial of German Major War Criminals. (Full Text) Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression. United States Government. Printing Office. Washington, 1947 Principles of International Law Recognized in the Charter of the Nürnberg Tribunal and in the Judgment of the Tribunal. Text adopted by the International Law Commission at its second session, in 1950, and submitted to the General Assembly as a part of the Commission's report covering the work of that session. The report, which also contains commentaries on the principles, appears in: ILC Report, A/1316 (A/5/12), 1950, part III, paras. 95-127, Yearbook of the International Law Commission, 1950, vol. II.

The UN and the Spanish Question

UN General Assembly Resolution 32(I) on the Spanish Question. Twenty-sixth plenary meeting, 9 February 1946. UN General Assembly Resolution 39(I) on the Spanish Question. Fifty-ninth Plenary meeting, 12 December 1946.

Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps. Special Session of the General Assembly (24Jan05)

Speech by the Federal Minister Joschka Fischer at the ceremony to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Sachsenhausen Memorial, 17 April 2005 The UN commemorates the 60th. anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps, a day to remember the potential victims of present and future horrors. Radio Nizkor with the collaboration of the Schell Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School, 26Jan05 (08m 23ss) Exhibition opens at UN headquarters to recall the duty to remember WWII atrocities. UN Radio, 24Jan05 (03m 00ss) General Assembly marks 60th anniversary of liberation of Nazi death camps. UN News Centre, UN, NY, 24Jan05 A group of Spanish associations of victims of Francoism and World War II ask the UN Secretary-General for his meditation before the Spanish state. Several Spanish associations of victims of Francoism and World War II, Madrid, 24Jan05 Video of meeting commemorating the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps (afternoon session) UNGA, 24Jan05 (02h 53m) Video of meeting commemorating the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps (morning session) UNGA, 24Jan05 (03h 02m) Special session General Assemby Commemoration of the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Liberation of the NAzi Concentration Camps, UN, 24Jan05 The UN General Assembly marks the 60th. anniversary of liberation of Nazi death camps with a special GA session. Radio Nizkor with the collaboration of the Schell Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School, 22Jan05 (05m 50ss) Evil of Holocaust still threatens world, Annan says ahead of special UN Assembly session. UN News Centre, NY, 19Jan05

Links

Mauthausen Cases. Mauthausen Memorial website. KZ Mauthausen-GUSEN Info-Pages. Gusen Memorial Committee KZ GusenMemorial Committee Digital Archive Project. Photographs of Mauthausen Film on the Liberation of Mauthausen. Film courtesy the United States Department of Justice. Subcamps of Mauthausen. Jewish Virtual Library Mauthausen. Mauthausen Concentration Camp Mauthausen by Scrapboookpages. Dachau Trials US vs. Lauriano Navas, et al, Spanish Kapos at Mauthausen Dachau Trials US vs. Hans Altfuldisch, et al, March 7, 1946 Site of the Memorial and Museum Sachsenhausen. Brandenburg Memorials Foundation. Sachsenhausen Trial. Sachsenhausen - Oranienburg Photographs. Flossenburg Cases. The Avalon Project at Yale Law School. The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group. The Nizkor Project Dedicated to the millions of Holocaust victims who suffered and died at the hands of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime Holocaust: The Death Camps Les amis des Combattants en Espagne Républicaine. [FRE] Breve historia de "La Nueve". Página sobre los españoles en la II DB que entró en París el 24ago44 [SPA] La cuestión de la impunidad en España y los crímenes franquistas. [SPA] Otros casos de aplicación del Derecho Internacional en jurisdicción ordinaria. Caso Adolfo Scilingo en España [SPA] Caso Scilingo: Texto completo de la Sentencia 16/2005. Sección Tercera de la Sala de lo Penal de la Audiencia Nacional, Madrid, 19abr05. [SPA] Amicus Curiae submitted by the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School in support of the characterization of Adolfo Scilingo's conduct as crimes against humanity. Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School, 13Dec06 Texto de la sentencia del Tribunal Supremo confirmando que los crímenes cometidos por Adolfo scilingo son crímenes contra la humanidad. Pleno jurisdiccional de la Sala Segunda del Tribunal Supremo, Madrid, 01oct07 [SPA] Caso Miguel Angel Cavallo en España [SPA] Juicio contra Augusto Pinochet en España Seguimiento documental del caso. [SPA]

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