UNITED STATES: JACOB REIMER ACCUSED OF PARTICIPATING IN NAZI ATTROCITIES IN WORLD WAR II GIVES EVIDENCE ONSECOND DAY OF HIS DEPORTATION HEARING

Record ID: 337834

  • Title: UNITED STATES: JACOB REIMER ACCUSED OF PARTICIPATING IN NAZI ATTROCITIES IN WORLD WAR II GIVES EVIDENCE ONSECOND DAY OF HIS DEPORTATION HEARING
  • Date: 13th August 1998
  • Summary: NEW YORK, UNITED STATES,AUGUST 13 (RTV-ACCESS ALL) 1. PAN DOWN EXTERIOR OF UNITED STATES COURTHOUSE 0.13 2. PAN OF COURTHOUSE SIGN 0.26 3. SEMI-VIEW OF U.S. FLAG IN FRONT OF COURTHOUSE 0.31 4. TRACK JACOB REIMER AND ATTORNEY RAMSEY CLARK ENTERING COURTROOM 1.12 5. SV (COURTROOM SKETCHES BY CHRISTINE CONNOLY) VIEW OF JACOB REIMER TESTIFYING WITH ATTORNEY RAMSEY CLARK (IN LIGHT SUIT) QUESTIONS THE DEFENDANT HEARD BY JUDGE LAWRENCE MCKENNA 1.16 6. CLOSE UP SKETCH OF JACOB REIMER 1.23 7. CLOSE UP SKETCH REIMER AND JUDGE LAWRENCE MCKENNA 1.28 8. CLOSE UP SKETCH JACOB REIMER 1.36 9. SV SKETCH OF JACOB REIMER, JUDGE LAWRENCE MCKENNA AND RAMSEY CLARK 1.43 10. TRACK JACOB REIMER AND RAMSEY CLARK LEAVING THE COURTHOUSE IN WAITING TAXI 2.29 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Story Text: Jacob Reimer, accused of participating in Nazi attrocities in World War II, cried on the stand during his second day of testimony at a U.S.deportation hearing.

    Prosecutors allege Reimer helped the Nazis round up and exterminate Jews in Poland during the Second World War.They are asking U.S.District Judge Lawrence McKenna to revoke Reimer's citizenship.

    On Thursday (August 13) the 73-year-old Reimer testified that he witnessed Nazi SS officers killing jewish prisoners in the Trawniki, Poland Administration garrison where he was a Russian Army POW in 1942.He said the German officers ordered Jews to disrobe and stand near deep trenches, then shot them.

    The testimony, marked with audible weeps from the defendant, brought gasps and hisses from the members of the largely Jewish and gallery.

    "It was right behind where we were staying.The Jews were instructed to to take off their clothes and walk to where they were shot ", Reimer said.

    "It started early in the morning and continued all day", he continued, "The SS would take turns shooting ,some young some old.You couldn't look too long it was sickening." Reimer denied having any knowledge of the extermination of the Jews before the day of the Trawniki massacre.When defense attroney Ramsey Clarke posed the question , Reimer took a long silent pause and said, "Well, liquidate, we heard rumors, but we didn't want to believe it, that people could kill other people." Testimony will continue on Monday (August 17) with cross examination by the Prosecution.


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