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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.
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]
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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.
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]
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