FRANCE: NAZI WAR CRIMINAL ALOIS BRUNNER ON TRIAL Video
(2 Mar 2001) English/Nat
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Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner, who sent tens of thousands of Jews to their deaths during the Holocaust, went on trial in absentia on Friday for deporting hundreds of children to death camps.
Austrian-born Brunner, who fled to Syria and has not been seen in years, has already been sentenced to death in absentia twice in France.
The case that opened Friday focuses on the deportation to Auschwitz of 250 children from Jewish orphanages and 100 other children who were arrested at the same time.
Dozens of protesters gathered outside the Paris courthouse, many holding photos of deported children.
The deportations took place while Brunner was in command of the Drancy transit camp, north of Paris, where Jews were held and stripped of their assets before being sent to Auschwitz.
Before arriving in France, Brunner also helped wipe out the Jewish communities of Vienna and Salonica, Greece.
French Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld led the fight to bring Brunner to trial for the deportation of nearly 350 children in July 1944.
Of those, 284 died in gas chambers on July 31, the day of their arrival.
The trial may close a chapter in the life of the world-famous Nazi hunter, who expects this to be his last stand in the legal fight to bring senior Nazis to justice.
Klarsfeld and his German-born wife, Beate, have brought many war criminals to trial, such as Klaus Barbie, who was responsible for the torture-death of French Resistance leader Jean Moulin and the capture and deportation of 44 Jewish children hidden in the village of Izieu.
And there is another reason the case has special resonance for Klarsfeld - Brunner's SS arrested Klarsfeld's father in 1943 and sent him to Auschwitz, where he died.
Brunner was sentenced to death in absentia twice in 1954, in Paris and Marseille, but neither tribunal dealt with the specific crime that will be the focus of Friday's case: the deportation to Auschwitz on July 31, 1944 of 250 children from Jewish orphanages and 100 other children who were arrested at the same time.
Syria has always denied that it harbored Brunner.
But in 1987, the German news weekly Bunte published an interview with photographs of Brunner - then alias Georg Fischer - outside his villa in Damascus.
Since then, however, investigations have failed to determine if he is still alive.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Don't forget that Alois Brunner killed 120-thousand people in Europe and in France 25-thousand and among them, so many children, so it's necessary to put a final point, and you never know that final point can perhaps be the start of something new in the case because Alois Brunner is normally still alive and protected in Syria."
SUPER CAPTION: Serge Klarsfeld, Nazi Hunter
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"He tried to escape from Auschwitz, and the dog was sent to him, and that was the end of it. So you see, we never will get over it, because every time we hear something else and something else, and it's so horrible. And that's why I'm here today too."
SUPER CAPTION: Helene Sukno, daughter of Holocaust victim
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