Apr. 28, 1963 - Two former aides of Adolf Eichmann have been charged with murder in the killing of at least 300,000 Hungarian Jews in World War II, the Frankfurt prosecutor’s office announced today. They are Herman Krumey (left), 58, Eichmann’s representative in Hungary in 1944, and Otto Hunsche (right), 51, one of Eichmann’s legal advisers. Both are former SS officers. Eichmann, Hitler’s chief lieutenant in the anti-Jewish campaign, was executed in Israel last year for the wartime murder of millions of European Jews and others. Krumey and Hunsche also were accused of extorting millions from their victims on false promises to save them from extermination. Between March and July 1944, Krumey allegedly ordered the transport of 437,402 Hungarian Jews to the Auschwitz death camp, where at least 300,000 were killed.
Comments