The 96-year-old Karl Munter, a former SS officer who served under the commander who ordered the massacre in Ascq on April 1-2, 1944, is being prosecuted for Holocaust denial and hate speech.
Munter is on trial for remarks he made on camera to undercover journalists from the German network ARD in November 2018. He was at a meeting of neo-Nazis, reports The Jerusalem Post.
He claimed that 6 million Jews could not have been murdered because “there weren’t that many Jews in our country!” He also said that the SS murdering French civilians was justified. When asked if he regretted the murder of 86 French civilians in the village of Ascq in 1944, he answered that the victims had “brought their fate on themselves.”
Munter and his commander, Obersturmführer Walter Hauck, were sentenced to death after the war by the French military court but were later pardoned. Now, he is facing a maximum sentence of five years, which means that if convicted, he might spend his 100th birthday in jail.
According to the newspaper Algemeiner, Munter has continued his neo-Nazi activities ever since the war.
More News
