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...foggy morning last week, three law-enforcement officers walked up to a strapping woodcutter bending over a power saw deep in the dark North German forest of Sachsenwald. "Hands up!" shouted an officer, and the surprised lumberjack allowed himself to be handcuffed without resistance. Thus the law finally caught up with former SS Sturmbannführer Richard Baer, 49, last commandant of Hitler's infamous Auschwitz extermination camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: The Commandant of Auschwitz | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

...proceedings to have him declared so, even though that would have enabled her to claim a widow's pension. Investigators also discov ered that while ostensibly living with her father in a Hamburg suburb, she spent a lot of time in a cottage on the edge of the Sachsenwald, the home of a quiet-spoken woodcutter named Karl Egon Neumann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: The Commandant of Auschwitz | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

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