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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 ...
Jan 28, 2021 · “Wunsch was found innocent due to the state of mind in Austria in those days,” Sarfaty says. “All the Nazis on trial there were exonerated. Of the 60 Nazis who had worked in death camps and were brought to the attention of the authorities, only four were prosecuted, all of them found not guilty. Wunsch’s trial was the last of these.”
Feb 14, 2018 · The Nazi in question was an Austrian SS-Rottenführer (lance corporal) Franz Wunsch. “During the lunch break”, Helena recalled, “the Kapo asked us if any of us could sing or recite something nice, as it was the birthday of the SS man.” Helena was one of those chosen to sing. The officer was absolutely taken with her.
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Lastly, a footnote: Austrian producer Kurt Langbein is the son of Hermann Langbein, a non-Jewish resistance fighter and Auschwitz survivor, who, along with Simon Wiesenthal, led the struggle to ...
Franz Wunsch (21. března 1922, Drasenhofen – 23. února 2009) byl rakouský člen jednotky SS a bývalý dozorce v koncentračním táboře Osvětim-Březinka.
Aug 12, 2015 · Forbidden love: SS guard Franz Wunsch (left) and Jewish prisoner Helena Citronova fell in love at Auschwitz - just like the two main characters in controversial new novel For Such a Time
