Word: baer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the departing junior members, Richard T. Gill '48 and Jaroslav Venek, both assistant professors, will be an leave next year; Werner Baer, head tutor, has accepted a position at Yale; Barbara R. Berman, instructor in Economics, has one to Washington; and Geoffrey B. Wainsworth, an instructor, will also be saving the staff. It has also been reported that two others of non-professorial rank may also leave...
Cherchez la Femme. Baer's wife insisted that her husband was dead. But Frankfurt State Prosecutor Heinz Wolf found that she had never initiated legal proceedings to have him declared so, even though that would have enabled her to claim a widow's pension. Investigators also discov ered that while ostensibly living with her father in a Hamburg suburb, she spent a lot of time in a cottage on the edge of the Sachsenwald, the home of a quiet-spoken woodcutter named Karl Egon Neumann...
When Prosecutor Wolf's men stripped Neumann, they found on his right hip the same bullet scar SS Man Baer carried there. Woodcutter Neumann snapped to attention, confessed: "I am Richard Baer. I was an officer. Treat me accordingly...
...Eichmann & Co. That summer he kept the gas chambers and the four giant ovens roaring at top capacity to consume the 380,000 Jews Eichmann shipped in from Hungary. On Oct. 18, 1944, the gassing stopped because the Russians had pushed the battle line too close. In January, Baer ordered the camp's surviving 64,000 inmates to march to the Gross-Rosen camp near Breslau. Hundreds of prisoners died of exposure or were shot by guards when they fell by the way. Baer skipped ahead to Gross-Rosen; then, as the Russians surged on Berlin, he submerged himself...
With at least 23 other former Auschwitz officials whom Wolf and his Frankfurt staff have rounded up in the past two years (warrants are out for 14 others), Baer will be brought to justice some time next year in one big trial in Frankfurt...