Not sure which forum heading to post this under? I am sure it will be moved to a more suitable forum if necessary. I am searching for a photo of Dr Hans Kapfer. I have searched the web, there is plenty about him, but no photo! Maybe one of our Austrian members can come up with something? I would prefer to have a photo to fit in with some research I am doing. This article will give you some back ground to the story: Eighteen former Austrian S.S. and Gestapo officials who were released last year from Russian prison camps were arrested in Vienna and charged with having taken part in massacres in Poland at which several hundred Jews were killed. In reply to attacks in the pro-Nazi press, the Austrian Minister of Justice, Dr. Kapfer, pointed out that the men had been accused of atrocities against Jews in the ghettoes of Kolomea, Stryj, and Borislav ; they are alleged to have driven a large number, including old men, women, and children, on to a public square, forced them to undress, and dragged them away info already prepared pits where all were shot. Should these charges be proved. Dr. Kapfer said, the accused would be liable to Ijfe imprisonment. Referring to the case of Johann Sanitzer, a Gestapo inspector, who had been sentenced fo life imprisonment by an Austrian court. Dr. Kapfer said that he was guilty of ill-treatment but not of any killings, and he had therefore been conditionally released after nine years in prison, including six in Russia. Should fresh evidence submitted hy organisations of former concentration camp inmates indicate that Sanitzer had also been guilty of killings, then he would be re-arrested. Dr. Kapfer stated. Thanks inanticipation! Alan
