After the war, Rasmussen, changed his surname to hide his dark past and slipped into mundane suburban life where he got married, had two children and became a film company lighting technician. Zuroff told the AP they had a strong case against Helmuth Leif Rasmussen because of documents found by Danish historians published in a book last year, and that they were looking at other cases. That made him part of the extermination-machine.Â. Belarus concentration camp A leading Nazi-hunter has called on the Danish government to arrest a 90-year-old suspected war criminal. By Flemming Emil Hansen In Vienna For Mailonline, Published: 02:52 EST, 27 July 2015 | Updated: 06:00 EST, 27 July 2015. The question isn’t hypothetical: The Simon Wiesenthal Center has presented Danish authorities with a dossier urging the prosecution of Helmuth Leif Rasmussen, who … Tirsdag d. 03. maj 2016, kl. The question isn’t hypothetical: The Simon Wiesenthal Center has presented Danish authorities with a dossier urging the prosecution of Helmuth Leif Rasmussen, who by his own account was present at the Bobruisk camp in 1942-43 when 1,400 Jews were killed there. "Now we're looking for additional Danish Waffen SS who served in this camp. Sturgeon apologises for breaching Covid rules, Sikh community get police escort to deliver food to Dover lorries, 'The party's over! He was a soldier in the Nazi unit Free Corps Denmark and served as camp guard outside Bobruisk in present-day Belarus. It was a conscious strategy to introduce the recruits to these types of crimes from day one,' he said. He was a soldier in the Nazi unit Free Corps Denmark and served as camp guard outside Bobruisk in present-day Belarus. 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"Helmuth Leif Rasmussen has during the last 40 years lived under a different name in Fredriksberg. He revealed how prisoners who were no longer fit to work were ordered to dig their own graves in the forest at the edge of the camp and were shot in the head. Now 90, Rasmussen, a widower, potters around the affluent enclave in Copenhagen and idles away his time laughing and joking with his friends at a walking club for the elderly where no-one knows of his history. Holocaust survivors gather for Auschwitz 70th... Another new variant of COVID is spreading rapidly in South Africa, Sea-level rise from climate change could be worse than projected, France rewards frontline immigrant workers with citizenship. Nazi hunters at the Simon Wiesenthal Center have held talks with prosecutors in Denmark to make the case for Rasbøl to be prosecuted over his role at the Waldlager death camp. Recent onderzoek door de Deense historici Dennis Larsen en Therkel Straede naar Deense nazi’s in de Tweede … The camp was created in 1942 after the Nazis invaded Brobruisk, which was home to 30,000 Jews. Dr. Fauci on the key to returning to "some form of normality", NYC mayor orders U.K. travelers to quarantine or face fine, ICE arrests, deportations dropped sharply in 2020 due to COVID, Rockets-Thunder season opener postponed due to COVID-19, New tip-sharing rule may cost tipped workers $700 million a year, Democrats will try to approve $2,000 direct checks Thursday, Biden outlines plan for next round of COVID relief, Biden committed to immigration pledges, advisers say, Biden announces Miguel Cardona as education secretary nominee. The question isn’t hypothetical: The Simon Wiesenthal Center has presented Danish authorities with a dossier urging the prosecution of Helmuth Leif Rasmussen, who by … Of the 1,500 Jews who were taken to Waldlager from the ghetto in Warsaw in 1942 – only 90 survived when it closed the following year. It's one of the less well known Nazi 'labour' camps, but in an interview with the Danish police on June 6, 1945 Rasmussen - part of the Free Corps Denmark - told of the horrors of what went on there. Â. All Rights Reserved. Ephraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center filed the request Tuesday with the Copenhagen police after the Justice Ministry last year turned down a similar request saying it was not their matter. To do that they built a base in the forest camp close to the village of KIssyelevichi – five miles from Bobruisk. 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