Lorenz Hemicker

He found, finally, the denazification file of Ernst, misfiled under Hernica, not Hemica, and non-digitized.

That's the reason.

You know, almost every German man was more or less a Nazi.

And when you have been part of the Notional Socialistic Democratic Party or of the SS or of any other Nazi organization, you had to run through this denazification process in Western Germany.

So there were millions of these files.

And

The progress changed after the end of the Second World War.

At the beginning, it was very, really strict.

And then, you know that better than me, the Cold War came and you needed all those people.

So you had many, many processes that were abbreviated and shortened.

And then the people were set free and everything was fine.

And with Ernst, the depressing thing is that I found sentences from him.

He told the denazification story.

People that he had put the trigger he should choose in the Second World War.

He had mentioned it at his former working place in Lüdenscheid.

And he confirmed that he had said these things.

And yeah, this was really depressing for me.

Are you seeing his words on the paper?

I'm seeing his words on the paper.

It's a transcription file, yeah.