DAMNING papers proving how a Nazi
caught by The Sun signed away Jews’ lives can be revealed
today.
The dossier shows how wartime monster Milivoj Asner wielded fearsome police powers
over helpless citizens and sealed their fates with his signature.
On Monday we told how we tracked down Croatian-born Asner, now 95, soaking up
the atmosphere of the Euro 2008 football championships in
Klagenfurt, Austria, where he has lived for years under a
false name.
He insisted he was just a minor civil servant in the Second World War and that
he “never did anything bad against anybody”.
But The Sun can lift the lid on documents
naming him as senior police chief of the savage Ustashi fascists
in Pozega, Croatia – where the entire Jewish community was
wiped out.
The document APPOINTING him officially head of the police on May 15, 1941 is
held in Croatian government archives.
Another paper dated October 18, 1941 was personally signed by Asner AUTHORISING
the eviction of 63 Jewish families who were then exterminated.
Massacred
It ordered the seizure of their homes and estimated the values
of the properties, with Asner declaring: “I forbid the
below-citated persons to reside in the flats they have
owned till now.”
TAsner also typed out a list of other people CONDEMNING them to join the families
in notorious Jasenovac concentration camp, where 700,000
were massacred.
His signature appears on a letter describing SEIZING a rich woman’s property
after sending her Jewish husband to his death.
Another document shows Asner REFUSING
to save Jula Klein, born in his own town, from Nazis in Austria
just because she was a Jewess.
The papers are among hundreds that
prosecutors will use to convict Asner of war crimes.
Until now Austria has refused Croatian
requests to extradite him on “health grounds”. But authorities
in Vienna yesterday confirmed they may now order a new medical
examination.
Asner is the fourth most-wanted Nazi suspect still alive.
Interpol has a warrant for his arrest on “genocide, war crimes and crimes against
humanity”.
Academic Alen Budaj, who uncovered
the dossier, said: “It is rubbish for him to claim he was
too junior to order the deportation of Jews. He was engaged
in systematic killing.”
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre, which
probes Holocaust atrocities, has demanded Asner’s immediate
extradition saying there is “absolutely no justification”
for continuing to refuse it.
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