Cornerstones...: Send Nazis to Spain

Ivan (John) Demjanjuk

Johann Leprich

On June 19, 2008 a criminal complaint was presented at the national court on behalf of several survivors and family of Spanish victims of the Nazi regime.

This is the first time in 60 years that citizens have reached the podiums of Spanish justice In fact, the Spanish State never acknowledged the collaboration with the National Socialist system of the III Reich, or any representative of the same or asked forgiveness from victims.

Spanish victims of the fields of concentration ("KL" - Kozentrationslager) Mauthaussen and Sachsenhausen Flossenbürg are especially represented in this case.

09 July 08 the public prosecutor's Office of the national court issued its opinion favourable to completition and the admission of the lawsuit, which was supported by the Court Central of instruction No. 2, 17 July 08.

This case is possibly one of the last procedures where direct perpetrators of crimes committed in the Nazi concentration camps can be judged that are, in themselves, an example of impunity that kept many of those responsible for these serious crimes free throughout Europe.

http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/espana/klm/