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[matrixmann]

Ein paar interessante, durch Zufall entdeckte Fakten:

Richard von Weizsäcker (1920-2015) war von 1981 bis 1984 Bürgermeister von (West-)Berlin, ab Juli 1984 bis 1994 6. Bundespräsident der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

Sein Vater, Ernst Heinrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker (1882-1951), wurde im Zuge der Nürnberger Prozesse wegen Mitwirkung an der Deportation französischer Jugen nach Ausschwitz als Kriegsverbrecher verurteilt.

Richard von W. war seinerzeit als Assistent für dessen Verteidiger bei dem Gerichtsprozess tätig und sogar als "Hilfsverteidiger" vor dem Gericht zugelassen.
Gleiches traf auch beim Prozess von Franz von Papen, in Form seines Sohnes Friedrich Franz von Papen, zu.



Quelle: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Weizsäcker, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_von_Weizsäcker, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_von_Papen, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Franz_von_Papen

Comments

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I am familiar in general but didn't know the details. Thanks. May even use you as a reference some time because I was going to write some stuff. Mostly about big business involved with Nazis during WWII and still in business but politicians afterwards are interesting too.

[matrixmann]

Errr, I was pretty surprised about stumbling over this because I was simply looking for something different about that person. Something more trivial, I think...

It's a bit difficult to explain because it requires some knowledge about German history, especially the part of history as two German states still existed.
I'm not that familiar with that time episode myself as I didn't experience it myself, neither the events which took place in that episode.
But even if reading this as a technical outsider, it raises big questions for me about what this is supposed to mean concretely.
Judging from my view as an outsider, the context from between the lines that I get from those facts is no good one.
But I don't know if I'm also missing some details on this through the lack of familiarity with this time episode and the people being active in it...