German Court Frees Nazi War Crimes Suspect

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The Guardian

Friday October 15, 2004 2:16 PM
By ROLAND LOSCH

Associated Press Writer

MUNICH, Germany (AP) - A court ordered an 86-year-old man accused of Nazi war crimes in Slovakia freed from custody Friday after a key witness said he could no longer clearly remember what happened.

Former Capt. Ladislav Niznansky remains charged with 164 counts of murder in massacres of civilians in three villages in early 1945 and the trial will continue.

But presiding Judge Manfred Goetzl said that ``urgent suspicion can no longer be assumed'' following testimony earlier this week by the witness, Jan Repasky.

``This means that you will be freed today,'' Goetzl told Niznansky, who then embraced his wife.

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1. Ladislav Niznansky

Not a VERY german name...
I wonder what his story is...
My guess is he's from Poland originally.

Which shows me that you can be a Nazi no matter what ethnicity you come from.

Also that in the chaos of war sides are not always clear.

Remarkably that he even got a high position within the german military with THIS name, when Poland and most eastern countries were deemed subhuman.

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2. He was born in Slovakia

There were/are many Nazis or collaborators from non-German ethnicities.

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3. If you read a history of the Nazi SS organization, you'll find that they..

...recruited people from all European nationalities.