“FURTHER INVESTIGATIONS" INTO THAELMANN'S DEATH from Julian Atkinson i + + +
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i rt reads: : sige Bs Gerken Central Office of enquiries into aa oN Ba SES Crimes has announced that it is to undertake "further tart os z the circumstances of Ernst Thaelmann's murder e + ¢ «Two of his mur ee tad Wolfgang Otto and Werner Berger - live in the Federal es ‘pri, 1962, Rosa Thaelnmn and Ludwig Landwehr, an anti-fascist arene | oes Buchenwald, where Thaelmann was killed in August, 1944, suomitte nee evidence of Ottds and Berger's guilt to the Central Office and demandec : their trial. The Cologne Procurator's Office spent almost 2 years in pig ee igations. How it went about them may be judged by the fact that it poke si Landwehr instead of the murderers. His home was searched and the documents and letters exposing the murderers disappeared.
"In the course of the enquiry, Cologne Procurator Korsch questioned one of the leadins witnesses, Marian Zgoda, as though he were a hardened criminal and not a man helping the investigators. Korsch shouted at him and threatened to jail him unless he withdrew his evidence.» .On March 17 this year the Cologne Procurators Office suspended investisations on the grounds that it was impossible "to establish with sufficient authenticity who were Thaclnann's murdererseeeeand who the accomplice " And yet the authencicity of the documents submitted by Rosa Thaelmann and Ludwig Landwehr was sufficient enough for the same procurator's office to admit that "Gestapo officials and camp warders, probably including Otto and Berger, were present when Thaelmann was murdered,"