SS Sören Kam - no Extradition to Denmark

[M.H.]

Munich court denies extradition

Sören Kam (85) is accused to have taken part in the murder of a journalist and resistance fighter Carl Henrik Clemmensen 1943 in Kopenhagen.
The Munich Higher Regional Court now resolved to deny Danmark the plea for extradition: The crime is time-barred!

(sadly only in german)

http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/0 ... 12,00.html

Summary: Murder doesn't become time-barred but this Munich court decided that this was NOT murder but homicide! That's why he doesn't have to fear extradition from Kempten (where he lives) anymore...
(Kam became german citizen)

[panzermahn]

Munich court denies extradition

Sören Kam (85) is accused to have taken part in the murder of a journalist and resistance fighter Carl Henrik Clemmensen 1943 in Kopenhagen.
The Munich Higher Regional Court now resolved to deny Danmark the plea for extradition: The crime is time-barred!

(sadly only in german)

http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/0 ... 12,00.html

Summary: Murder doesn't become time-barred but this Munich court decided that this was NOT murder but homicide! That's why he doesn't have to fear extradition from Kempten (where he lives) anymore...
(Kam became german citizen)

Yeah right. Tell that to Uncle Joe's Bolshevik gang of murderers at Katyn, Lvovo, Vinnitsa, Nemmersdorf, Grischino as well as the Bolshevik demolition battalions (Stribai) in Baltic states...Not one of their victims received a single iota of justice...not a single victim of Uncle Joe's workers paradise camp (Gulag if you guys wanted to know what is the Bolshevik definition of worker's paradise) received any sort of justice or compensation.a

But yet, we had numerous calls for justice to be served on Waffen SS men (Priebke, Kam, etc..) One Waffen SS vet even told me that when he and a small group of friends went to Bad-Reichenhall during late 2005 to pay their respects to the murdered kameraden from the Charlemagne Division, the Verfassungschutz even send agents to monitor a bunch of old men with umbrellas...

But hopefully things were getting better nowadays, Latvia actually sentenced a former Bolshevik NKVD man to jail for crimes against humanity and if I am not mistaken, that was last year

Panzermahn

[DXTR]

A few weeks ago it was revealed that Kam actually took part in a robbery in august 1943 where he seized the registers of jews in Denmark. Thus he enabled the German authorities to hunt down jews in august 1943. Most of the Danish Jews had already been warned by Danish politicians who knew of the German plans to round up all Danish Jews. Most of them escaped, but 500 were captured and deported to German camps. 52 of these died in Thereisenstadt.

Søren Kam refuses any participation in these arrests and the theft of the lists of Jews.

The Danish minister of justice has asked the police to investigate whether there is any hard evidence to support the claim that Kam had a hand in the arrest and deportation of Søren Kam.

As a side note Kam had a “business” on e-bay selling signed photographs of himself in waffen SS uniform for 9,99 euro. But due to e-bay restrictions on the display of the swastika, they were removed.

[teddy]

Søren Kam
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Søren Kam
November 11, 1921
Place of birth Copenhagen
Allegiance Germany
Years of service 1941–1945
Rank SS-Obersturmführer
Unit 5th SS Panzergrenadier Division Wiking
Awards Close Combat Badge
Infantry Assault Badge
Iron Cross 2nd & 1st class
Wound Badge (silver)
Knight's Cross
SS-Obersturmführer Søren Kam (b. November 11, 1921 in Copenhagen) was a Danish Waffen-SS officer, an SS-foreign volunteer, who served with the 5.SS-Panzergrenadier-Division Wiking during World War II. A member of the DNSAP, the Danish Nazi Party, he is also a Knight's Cross winner. He obtained West German citizenship in 1956. On September 21, 2006 the 85-year-old ex-member of the SS was detained in Kempten, Bavaria in accordance with a European arrest warrant issued by Denmark. Kam is wanted in his native country in connection with the murder of newspaper editor Carl Henrik Clemmensen in Lyngby, a suburb of Copenhagen during World War II. In 1946, a Danish court sentenced one of Kam's associates, Flemming Helweg-Larsen, to death in the same case and citing the same evidence material.[1] Helweg-Larsen was executed the same year. According to the evidence presented in the 1946 trial, Clemmensen had been killed by eight bullets fired from three different revolvers.[1] Danish police were unable to apprehend Jørgen Valdemar Bitsch, identified in the 1946 trial as the third person involved in the shooting, and his whereabouts remain unknown.[2]

In 1999, Danish Minister of Justice Frank Jensen requested an extradition of Kam. This was refused by Germany.[3] This request was later repeated by Jensen's successor Lene Espersen. In 2004, one of Clemmensen's grandchildren, Danish actor Søren Fauli, interviewed Kam in a documentary about the killing, titled Min morfars morder (My grandfather's murderer).[4] In this programme, Fauli forgives Kam, but asks him to admit his guilt. The documentary was aired on Danish television in 2004 and 2005.

On February 4, 2007, Germany denied his extradition to Denmark, after a German court claimed that the killing of Clemmensen was not murder but manslaughter — thus falling under the statute of limitations. Kam has stated that he admits having taken part in the abduction and killing of Clemmensen, but that he considers the case to be under the statute of limitations and the killing an accident.[5]

In February 2008, BBC World Service presented a radio program titled The Danish Nazi [6] which listed Kam as "the eighth most wanted Nazi War Criminal." The reporter was able to contact Kam, giving the only recorded interview with him, including a statement by Kam in which he says in English, "I am a good man, I never did anything wrong." The program is also available for download in MP3 format.

Contents [hide]
1 Summary of SS career
1.1 Dates of rank
1.2 Notable decorations
2 References
3 External links

[Paddy Keating]

I expect this will upset some people but from Kam's viewpoint, he shot a terrorist and, probably, a traitor. War involves killing. Young men like Kam saw themselves as engaged in a war to defend the Nordo-Celtic European peoples from oriental barbarians. Men who fought the Bolsheviks on the battlefields of the East would have regarded men like Clemmensen, fomenting trouble at home, as snakes-in-the-grass. It is also worth pointing out, even if some Danes dislike being reminded of the truth, that it was not illegal for Danes to enlist in the German armed forces, even if they tried to paint volunteers like Kam as traitors after the war in a classic revisionist exercise. If everyone who had ever gunned down someone in their house or on their doorstep in the name of a political cause were criminalised and jailed as a consequence, the history books would be missing a lot of famous world leaders and politicians. As for the references to Kam's alleged involvement in sending Jews to their deaths, if they can prove it, then file for extradition.

PK

[Waleed Y. Majeed]

journalist and resistance fighter

Have not heard of him being a resistance fighter... He was a newspaper editor
who criticised the German occupation. The case of his murder was because of
him calling another Dane a collaborator and then spitting at him.

Helweg-Larsen and Søren Kam thought he should be given a lesson (beating up) for this
which resulted in the (maybe planned) killing instead.
If name calling and spitting are acts of terrorism then there are a lot of terrorist around!

Yes he was critical towards the Germans and Danish collaborators but what he wrote as a journalist
and allowed to be printed as an editor was already heavily censored by the Germans.


waleed

[larsdenmark]

Well, as they allready executed Flemming Helweg Larsen for commiting that murder, Søren Kam legally can never be the murderer.
According to Danish law only 1 person can be the murderer.
For same reason they let an entire left wing terrorist gang("Blekingegadebanden") go free for having shot a young policeman in 1988.
We dont have "collective punishment" like for example in the United States.
Legally, according to Danish law, Søren Kam can only have been in accessary to murder, and then the case is too old.

[Paddy Keating]

Thank you very much for that very educational explanation of the legal situation regarding Danish law and the allegations against Søren Kam. Of course, our democratic leaders in our European wunderland tend to ignore the legal and constitutional diktats when it suits them.

PK

[Paddy Keating]

[quote="Waleed Y. Majeed"The case of his murder was because of
him calling another Dane a collaborator and then spitting at him.[/quote]

I can relate to that.