Oswald Kaduk, ‘Papa Kaduk’ or a monster??

When Oswald Kaduk was called a swine on April 6, 1964, the news spread like wildfire all over the world. The insult was made in Frankfurt am Main, in a hall converted into a courtroom. Here, 22 men stood trial for crimes they had committed in the concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz during the war. The man who was insulted was one of them. Between 1942 and 1945 he had grown into one of the most feared and brutal guards in the Nazi camp in Poland. ‘Outburst stirs Auschwitz Trial,’ the New York Times reported the next day. According to a reporter, someone in the audience had disturbed the trial by yelling loudly ‘beat that swine to death,’ referring to Kaduk.

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