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Old 24-03-03, 01:15
Vets_Dottir
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Default MEYER and MOHNKE

Hi Art and Sean:

I just looked in `Conduct Unbecoming' by Howard Margolian for any references to Meyer in the chapter about `Those Who Got Away' Page 183:

`...To support his family, Meyer went to work for Andreas Brewery in Hagen, West Germany. His job was to supervise the company's twenty-seven sales drivers...

...In another of the ironies associated with this story, one of Meyer's best customers was Canada's NATO mess at Soest, Germany...

...On the evening of 23 December 1961, his fifty-first birthday, Kurt Meyer's heart stopped for good.'

C. U. say on MOHNKE:

(years of attempts to try him had failed..Carman)

`...in the end Canadian authorities did little moreon the Mohnke case than to create a paper trail. Indeed, the Department of National Defence received the news of the new leads with a curious mixture of annoyance and resignation. While admitting that "we would be remiss if we did not notify the appropriate German Authorities of documents in our possession," the judge advocate clearly thought that this would be a waste of time, opineing that "there may exist many reasons
why Canada may not wish to be directly involved in the prosecution of alleged war criminals.' He did not elaborate what those reasons might be. Thus, while new evidence eventually was passed on to the Public Prosecutor's Office in Lubeck, it was done without enthusiasm, nor without any intention of following up on the progress of the German Investigation. The Mohnke case was once more on the back burner.'
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A witness could/would have fingered Mohnke. This witness `former SS Private Stangenberg' was alive (In Poland ?)still at the time the above (paragraph) happened so my take on things is that if things would have got pushed at that point, Mohkne might have been charged. The witness died in 1982 (says the book)
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