European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday october 21,1988 Indian crash probe does t Rule out sabotage Ahmadabad India the dutch Are reliving the painful years of wartime collaboration after reve lations that countrymen who once volunteered As Naii is members during world War ii have been holding secret annual reunions. The gatherings came to Light recently in an interview in the weekly Rij Nader. Land Wii i Jan Rudolf homies a 70 year old former lieutenant in Thi dutch is who Lal cd about the reunions. The is or Schute staffely Protection unit were founded in 1929 and Origi Nally served As bodyguards to Adolf Mil Ler and other senior nazi officials. Led by Heinrich him incr. The is later served As guards in nazi death Camps throughout wartime Europe. The unit also gained notoriety for fanaticism in combat. A dutch is unit fought on the russian front the largest non German is unit to do so. The next reunion for former is Mem Bers wives and widows is scheduled for May or june in southwestern nether lands Bie Bosch Region Homics told the associated press on wednesday. He refused to say exactly when or where. News of the scheduled meeting was played up in this weeks s dutch press reflecting the disdain Here for the 20,000 dutch i turns who signed up for is duty during nazi Germany s brutal five year occupation of the Netherlands. The nation s jewish Community was All but destroyed in the death Camps. Two German nazis Are Stilt imprisoned Here for War crimes. Periodic Calls for their release provoke an outcry from the dutch Public. Disclosures of the reunions have drawn vows from Bie Bosch officials and wartime resistance leaders to do what Ever they can 10 Stop the gathering. Hommes described the reunions As having a Nice Day oui and made Light of All the publicity. They re making such a tremendous amount of fuss Hommes complained. It s just like a. Bunch of kids from kindergarten. They be found something to get All Cuci cd about he said about 20 people took pan in the i98s reunion last Spring in Northern Drenle province. There arc fewer of us every year. They re dying All the time said Hommes who said he served As a War correspondent during the German inva Sion of the soviet Union and in Normandy after Allied troops landed there in 1944. We be been doing this undisturbed quietly for 40 he said he now regretted joining the is because All kinds of things happened that 1 never suspected were we All Learned our lesson he said. We simply made a after inc War a dutch court sentenced Liu macs to three Yean in prison for collaboration. He worked As a dutch civil servant following his release. Hendrik Vanliempd a spokesman for former dutch resistance fighters in the Bie Bosch Region said local resistance figures would lobby hotel and boat own ers not to offer their services to the is group. D. Ten Veen a City Hall official in the Bic Bosch City of Dordrecht said we Don t want such a reunion in the Bies Bosch area. Well try to prevent this Gath ering by whatever Legal Means Avail Able according to the brabants Nicus salad newspaper. It quoted him As saying that authorities can do nothing to prevent the meet ing however unless it presents a threat to Public order. Austrian nazi Hunter Simon Wiesen Thal accused the dutch government wednesday of being too lax in seeking u extradite three dutch War criminals who fled the nation and were convicted in Absten Tia. I have the impression the thing int being prosecuted with enough Energy he told reporters at Amsterdam s City Hall
