Partisan raid in Ascq and the trial in Lille
By Rolf Kosiek
In the many trials of the victorious powers against German soldiers after 1945, the law was bent and the truth suppressed. A special case, in which the facts were turned upside down and the victims were turned into perpetrators, was the trial in Lille in 1949 against members of the 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend".
The case of Hauptst…
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