Deutsch Schützen massacre explained

The Deutsch Schützen massacre was a 1945 mass killing of approximately 60 Jewish forced laborers by the Waffen-SS in Deutsch Schützen-Eisenberg in Austria. At the old church, Martinskirche, in the farmland on the west side of Deutsch Schützen, a plaque is erected on the exterior of the building memorializing those murdered in the massacre.

Incident and aftermath

The incident occurred on 29 March 1945.^[1]

The victims' remains were found in 1995 by the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien.^[2] In 2008, Viennese political science student Andreas Forster discovered the name of Adolf Storms in records of the incident. Forster's professor Walter Manoschek gathered evidence and conducted a videotaped interview with Storms.^[3] In 2009, then 90-year-old Storms was indicted for his alleged involvement in the killings.^[4]

Storms died on June 28, 2010, at the age of 90.^[5]

See also

• Rechnitz

Further reading

• Book: Sander, Ulrich. Mörderisches Finale: Naziverbrechen bei Kriegsende. Murderous Finale: Nazi War Crimes.. 2008. PapyRossa. Köln. 978-3-89438-388-6. German. 2012-07-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20080607061633/http://www.papyrossa.de/sites_buchtitel/sander_finale.htm. 2008-06-07. dead.
• Book: Jelinek, Walter Manoschek (Hg.); mit einem Text von Elfried. Der Fall Rechnitz: das Massaker an Juden im März 1945. The Rechnitz Case: The Massacre of Jews in March 1945.. 2009. Braumüller. Wien. 978-3-7003-1714-2. German. 2012-07-16. 2017-08-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20170802211239/http://www.braumueller.at/shop/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=2047&osCsid=5fff282ce1742c1fe021435d272b5a6d. dead.

External links

• The massacre of Hungarian-Jewish forced laborers in Deutsch-Schützen (Burgenland) and its judicial prosecution by the Austrian People's Courts
• Remembering Deutsch Schützen

Notes and References

1. Memmott, Mark (17 November 2009). "90-Year-Old Alleged Nazi Charged With 58 Counts Of Murder From 1945 Killings." National Public Radio
2. Rising, David (17 November 2009). "90-year-old charged in Germany for Nazi-era crimes." Associated Press
3. Staff report (21 October 2008). "Student tracks down Nazi war crimes suspect." The Daily Telegraph
4. Mackey, Robert (17 November 2009). "Former SS Man Charged in 1945 Massacre." The New York Times
5. Associated Press (6 July 2010). No. 4 Most-Wanted Nazi Dies a Free Man in Germany Associated Press