Ex Nazi Sandor Kepiro Acquitted Of His War Crimes
Auschwitz concentration camp, arrival of Hungarian Jews, Summer 1944
Photo Credit: Deutsches Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive), Bild 183-N0827-318
Sandor Kepiro has been found not guilty of committing war crimes during a 1942 raid. A court in Budapest acquitted the former police captain, who is now 97, of ordering the rounding up and execution of over 30 Jews and Serbs in Serbia in 1942.
The prosectuion were hoping for a prison term for Kepiro, but he claims that he did not kill anyone. At one point Sandor Kepiro was one of the most wanted Nazis on Simon Wiesenthal Centers list.
Over 1,200 Jewish, Serb and Roma civilians were murdered by Hungarian forces over the course of three days in a massacre in the city of Novi Sad in 1942. Prosecutors allege that Mr Kepiro was directly responsible for the deaths of 36 Jews and Serbs – including 30 who were taken away and shot on his orders.
Mr Kepiro professed his innocence claiming that he had been “the only person to refuse the order to use firearms”, and that he had personally intervened to save five people about to be killed.
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