Lorenz Hemicker

Yeah, a standard journey.

He went bankrupt as well.

He lost three fourths of his brothers and sisters due to tuberculosis, fallen soldiers, his father as well.

And the people that were responsible for that were for him, of course, the Entente from the outside and from the inside, all those Democrats and socialists.

Yeah, both.

His eldest brother was killed in action already in 1915.

And I think the last brother, he was only three or four years old, died due to tuberculosis in the 20s.

What I found out was mainly the truth that my father told me already when I was a child.

Ernst was responsible as a gravedigger from Rumbola for the killing of 25,000 Jews and more.

And he has also been responsible as a person that oversaw the killings at the first of the graves for at least half an hour.

That is the core that is obvious and that is true.

He was an engineer.

He constructed the pits.

He oversaw the construction of the pits.

In the end, they were erected by Soviet Union prisoners of war, 300 of them.

And that's what he did.

I think the thing is that both persons were inside him.

We have curriculum vitae from him from the 1930s that he had written for the SS, where it was absolutely clear that he was in favor of the national socialistic ideology.

And then we have the testimonies he gave to the prosecutor and to the judges in the 60s, where he was an old man already, where he felt ashamed, where he said, OK, this was a horrible thing I had to do.

I didn't want to.