Lorenz Hemicker

And this made something from me, you know, the thing is, I'm crystal clear.

He was part of the Holocaust anyhow.

But if you discover as a grandson that he pulled the trigger against all the things he told before in testimonies and in the family, it really does something with you.

No, he wasn't specific at that moment.

I do not know if this in Germany would say Gnadenschuss, so killing people that are already heavily wounded or ill or something like that, or they weren't hit precisely by another shooter, then you do the final shot.

That's a Gnadenschuss.

I don't know if he referred to something that happened in Rumbola or if he refers to something that happened at Project Quartz or maybe something in between.

I mean, there are indications that he may also have been part of an anti-partisan operation of the SS, Operation Swamp Fever in the Soviet Union in Belarus or something else.

Yeah, I don't know.

It remains in the fog of war.

The board that was responsible for the denazification progress just closed the file.

And they called him a mid-lover that's level four or five.

So the second lowest level that was possible.

In the time when the file was closed, I think it was just the political circumstance that they didn't want to punish him.

And as I laid out later on, when he went to testimonies, the prosecutors didn't know anything about this file.

He was lucky that they didn't know about it, I think.

Yeah.

And I mean, you can look at the German dealing with the Nazi crimes in two ways.

The one way is you can say there are a lot of unfound crimes.

I think that's the truth.