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Sep 28, 2017 · Even with ‘an overwhelming evidence of guilt’ as the judge commented in Wunsch’s participation in the Nazi’s largest concentration camp’s mass murder, Wunsch was acquitted of all charges due to the statute of limitations over war crimes in Austria. “Desire changed my brutal behavior,” Wunsch said.
Franz Wunsch, born in Drasenhofen on 21 March 1922 in Lower Austria, came to Auschwitz as an SS storm trooper at the age of just 20. He had joined the SS shortly after his 18 th birthday and by the time he entered service had already served on the Western and Eastern Fronts. He had his first experience of the concentration camp system during a ...
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Nov 17, 2021 · Love it Was Not is a stunning documentary by Israeli director Maya Sarfaty about a romance between young Franz Wunsch, an Austrian SS Guard, and Helena Citron, a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz.
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At the Auschwitz concentration camp, she had a romantic relationship with the Austrian SS-Unterscharführer Franz Wunsch. Her story was covered in the BBC documentary series Auschwitz: The Nazis and 'The Final Solution' and served as the inspiration for the opera Helena Citrónová by the Thai composer S. P. Somtow .
Nov 5, 2021 · Thirty-five years after the liberation, Wunsch’s wife contacted Helena, imploring her to testify on his behalf at a war crimes trial in Vienna. Teetering on the precipice of a moral abyss Helena ...
Nov 4, 2021 · Among the first group of women to arrive at the notorious concentration camp in 1942, the fresh-faced, robust Helena Citron would soon attract the attention of Franz Wunsch, the young, high ...
Dec 7, 2021 · History gives us an actual example of what this kind of relationship actually looked like: the story of Helena Citron, who was a Jewish prisoner of Auschwitz in her teens, and Franz Wunsch, the Austrian SS officer who simply decided, while guarding her at the death camp and hearing her sing old German love songs, that she was the love of his life.
