Word: klingsiek
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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...Ernst Klingsiek, scribbled Martens' words on a prescription pad - words that a Nazi judge soon called "worth five death sentences." Condemned to the guillotine. Martens spent a year in prison, mostly in chains, until his dossier was deliberately lost by a Nazi official who happened to be one of his ex-patients. Because officials dared not kill him without proper papers, Martens survived...
...documentary series on the country's efforts to stamp out what President Theodore Heuss had called West Germany's "unovercome" Nazi past. Dr. Martens, now a West Berlin surgeon of 71, was shown telling how he almost lost his head. Then came readily identifiable shots of Dr. Klingsiek, now a prosperous Herford physician, driving home in his Mercedes-Benz to what a Frankfurt newspaper later called his "luxurious villa." With out actually naming "this main prosecution witness" against Martens, the commentator said ironically: "As you can see, he is doing well...
Pain & Suffering. Klingsiek sued the TV station for allegedly damaging his practice. He cited West Germany's privacy law, which bars any publication of a person's picture without his permission, unless he is "a personage of contemporary history." Two lower courts said he was just that. But a higher federal court has just upheld Klingsiek, ruling that the TV station "perhaps" could have complied with the privacy law by only one method - showing pictures of Klingsiek as a wartime witness. Even at that, insisted the court, Klingsiek "did not denounce Dr. Martens and did not tell untruths...
...Klingsiek's victory is likely to benefit many another ex-Nazi. Sentenced to 14 years in 1965, for example, Auschwitz Adjutant Robert Mulka was sprung for health reasons five months later. In a widely published picture, Mulka was recently shown puttering in his Hamburg garden. Since the picture was sneaked without his permission, Mulka may feel that he now has a good privacy case. On the other hand, the statute of limitations has not run out on crimes committed by still uncaught Nazis. If and when they are found, the press may be entitled to publish their pictures...
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