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Documents about a Nazi pardoned by von der Leyen's father have been released in Russia.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.[Regnum] The father of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in 1990 pardoned serial killer, Nazi Erich Gustav Scharfetter, who was sentenced to 18 life sentences. The relevant documents were published on the History.rf portal. Judging by the materials that were found and translated by expert of the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO) Yegor Yakovlev, on February 1, 1980, a court in Germany found Scharfetter guilty of 18 murders committed in a concentration camp in the occupied territory of the USSR, and sentenced the Nazi to 18 life sentences. Scharfetter beat women with rubber batons, shot at prisoners, and also beat them to death with a pickaxe, for which he received the nickname Kirkenik (“man with a pickaxe”). Five years after his sentencing, Scharfetter's daughter began petitioning for clemency due to his advanced age and poor health. In February 1990, the head of the federal state of Lower Saxony, Minister-President Ernst Albrecht, father of Ursula von der Leyen, pardoned the criminal. German authorities released him from prison on March 30, 1990. He died in 1998 at the age of 90. As reported by IA Regnum, earlier the German magazine Bunte wrote that two relatives of the Vice-Chancellor and Minister of Economics of Germany Robert Habeck served as officers in Nazi Germany. Habeck's grandfather was an Obersturmführer of the SA (storm troops), and his great-grandfather was an SS officer from the close circle of Nazi Germany's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. Khabek’s great-grandfather was recognized as a war criminal, the material says. In February, German media reported that German Foreign Minister Annalena Bärbock's grandfather, whom she often talks about at various memorial events, was a Nazi and served in the Wehrmacht. During World War II, Baerbock's grandfather was a Wehrmacht officer, an air defense engineer, and an active supporter of the Nazi regime. In 1944 he was awarded the Hitler Cross of Military Merit with swords. The German Foreign Ministry tried to justify Berbock, saying that the head of the department allegedly did not know about the Nazi views of her ancestor. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, previously noted that Germany supports the neo-Nazi Kiev regime because the descendants of the Nazis are in power in Berlin. In particular, German Foreign Minister Berbock for a long time “forgot” to say that her grandfather not only fought against the USSR as part of the Wehrmacht, but was also an ardent supporter of National Socialism, the diplomat recalled. Posted by: badanov 2024-06-21 |
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