Subsequent investigations: RSHA law suits and others

In early 1963, foreign public prosecutors' offices began to criticise the state of Berlin for the slow pace at which Nazi crimes were being prosecuted. As a result, a "RSHA working group" was formed, consisting of up to 12 public prosecutors. They investigated former members of the RSHA who, from their desks, had prepared and drafted orders to commit murder. Franz Stuschka and his deputy Richard Hartenberger were investigated in the matter of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". They were accused of "involvement in the murder of Jews in concentration camps through the imposition of protective custody". Again, the accusation did not relate to Wulkow, but to the actions of both men in the "Jewish Department". It was not possible to prove that they had imposed protective custody.

In the RSHA proceedings, numerous employees of the alternative site were also investigated. The desk offenders were accused of being guilty of accessory to murder. According to an amendment to criminal law in 1968, the prosecution would have been required to prove base motives or that the offences had been committed in a cruel and insidious manner. As this was virtually impossible and all but four cases were dropped.

„There is no reliable evidence that the term 'return undesirable' did not only mean that the prisoners were not to be returned to the Wulkow camp, but also that it contained an order or recommendation to kill them.“

From the closing statement of 6 February 1979

In 1969, the Central Office of the State Justice Administrations for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes was erroneously sent statements about Wulkow in the course of investigations into the Trebnitz satellite camp. This led to renewed investigations into Stuschka. This time, the deportations from Wulkow were the explicit subject of the investigation. Ten years (!) later, they were dropped. Stuschka was never held accountable for the deportations from Wulkow.

Simon Wiesenthal categorises the behaviour of the perpetrators - in the film "Gesucht wird... Franz Stuschka" 1985 by Paul Karalus
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