70 Years Ago Today@digitalpast_en

The last months of WWII. This accounts translates tweets by @digitalpast. Any questions? @askdigitalpast. Translations by @HelenMay_ / @helenakaschel

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Thus, in lieu of closing words: Thank you for reading.
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This story cannot be completed with one fitting sentence. History is never that easy.
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But the main perpetrator, Gerhard Thiele, disappeared and could only be identified after his death in 1994.
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Erhard Brauny, involved in the massacre of Gardelegen for the SS, received a life-long sentence in 1947.
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Several people involved in "Mühlviert's Harehunt" were senteced by Austrian courts for murder.
The sentences were increased during the appeal, Wetzling received a life-long sentence.
Only three were sentenced, among them main perpetrator Wolfgang Weltzling. He was sentenced to 5 years for manslaughter in 151 cases.
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Only six of the offenders from the massacre in Arnsberg's forest were put on trial in 1957.
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With reference to the "Collapse Paragraph" of the Immunity Act of 1954 they were granted amnesia.
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The murderers of Aachen's mayor Franz Oppenhoff were sentenced to short prison sentences in 1949 as accessories to manslaughter.
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Nansen published several works on his internment in Germany. He died in Oslo in 1973 at the age of 71.
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Odd Nansen went back to working as an architect in Norway. In 1946, he helped found the United Nations Children's Fund.
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Boveri stayed in Berlin where she died on July 6, 1975.
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Margret Boveri continued her work as a journalist and author who increasingly death with her own involvement in the nationalsocialist system
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The Klemperers participated in building of the German Democratic Republic. Eva Klemperer died in 1951, Victor Klemperer in 1960.
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The Klemperers got back to Dresden in June 1945. Victor Klemperer wrote "LTI. Notizbuch eines Philologen." ("LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii")
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Alfred Behrens continued working as a doctore in Bad Kreuznach after the war until he retired in 1965. He died there in 1969.
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Her imprisoned daughter, Ursula, was freed from the sentence she served in a prison in Bayreuth. She died in 2001 in Marburg.
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Furthermore, she became a founding member of the non-partisan Women's Union. She died in 1957 in Marburg.
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Shortly after the end of the war, Lisa de Boor founded the Waldorf school and the adult education center in Marburg.
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