Ninety-five-year-old Friedrich Karl B. has escaped trial in Germany. On February 20, the former concentration camp guard was extradited from Tennessee to Frankfurt after a US court found him to be a Holocaust perpetrator.
B. had admitted to having served as a camp guard, but he told a US immigration court in 2020 that he hadn’t seen any prisoners abused, hadn’t known of any deaths among the inmates and had not been posted to guard the evacuation marches of the camp.
Since there are no surviving witnesses to give testimony, when B. announced that he was unwilling to be questioned again, on March 31, prosecutors in Celle, central Germany, declared that their investigation was over: There was no new evidence, and that was that.
