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The wave of persecution in Frankfurt was triggered by the investigation of 17-year-old prostitute Otto Blankenstein, [7] [8] who was arrested on July 16, 1950, in Frankfurt for "commercial same-sex prostitution." [9] [10] The investigating public prosecutor, Dr. Fritz Thiede, personally took over the management of the police investigations.
On 6 April 1950 he was convicted of murdering 55 Jews from 1938 to 1943 and the attempted murders of 21 Jews, as well as for maltreatment of 29 Jewish prisoners in Frankfurt. His trial was five weeks long, with 157 witnesses testifying, including some of his victims. Heinrich Baab sent many of Frankfurt's Jews to camps from the rail station.
Before 1970, there were five kinds of confinement in Germany. They were Zuchthaus (prison), Gefängnis (prison), Einschließung (jail), Arbeitshaus (workhouse), and Haft (custody). A Zuchthaus was a prison of hard, physically exerting labor, such as breaking rocks, where prisoners had to work, even to the point of collapse. This was repealed by ...
1957 – Deutsche Bundesbank headquartered in Frankfurt. [24] 1958 Noor Mosque built. [25] Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt and Cinema Kino [26] open. 1959 – Justizvollzugsanstalt Frankfurt am Main IV (prison) begins operating. 1960 Sigmund-Freud-Institut founded. City twinned with Lyon, France. [27] 1963 – Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials begin.
During World War II, Frankfurt was the location of a Nazi prison for underage girls with several forced labour camps, [3] a camp for Sinti and Romani people (see Romani Holocaust), [4] the Dulag Luft West transit camp for Allied prisoners of war, [5] and a subcamp of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp. [6]
April 30 - The last Ration stamps (for sugar) expire in West Germany; In the GDR, food stamps were still in use until 1958.; June 5 - German broadcaster ARD started.; July 6 - Treaty of Zgorzelec was signed between the Republic of Poland and East Germany (GDR).
In 1993 the post was deactivated and was returned to the German Government. Since that time it has been redeveloped into a housing area. In honor of the past, the people of Oberursel have named the area Camp King. [15] There is a small monument in the housing area to the history of the area as a military base.
The officer responsible, then-21-year-old Emil Günter K. later stated that he had no killing intentions and was aiming for the legs; K. claimed his resignation from the service in 1950 was motivated by his guilty conscience. In May 1997, he was sentenced to 15 months probation and a fine of 1,200 DM. [68]