Michael Seifert (SS guard)

Michael Seifert (March 16, 1924 – November 6, 2010) was an SS guard in Italy during World War II.

He was an ethnic German^[1] born in Landau (present-day Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine). Dubbed the "Beast of Bolzano", he was convicted in absentia in 2000 by a military tribunal in Verona, Italy, on nine counts of murder, committed while he was an SS guard at the Bolzano Transit Camp, northern Italy.

He was sentenced to life in prison and extradited on February 17, 2008, from Canada to Italy. His crimes involved actions taken in a prison camp in Bolzano from 1944 to 1945. At his trial, witnesses accused him of leaving a prisoner to starve to death, raping and killing a pregnant woman, and gouging an inmate's eyes out.^[2]

Avi Benlolo, president of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies in Canada, noted that Seifert's imprisonment "sets an example for other war criminals, not only Nazi war criminals, but war criminals related to Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur, or any other genocide, that there's no time limit to justice".^[3]

After his extradition to Italy from Canada, Seifert was held in an Italian military prison in Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Prosecutors from Italy and Germany intended to interview him regarding other war crimes that may have taken place at Bolzano.^[4]

He died in 2010 in Santa Maria after having been transferred to a hospital from the Capua Vetere prison.^[5] He was buried in a cemetery near Caserta after his body went unclaimed by friends and relatives. [1]

Bibliography

• Giorgio Mezzalira and Carlo Romeo (editors): "MISCHA" l'aguzzino del lager di Bolzano. Dalle carte al processo a Michael Seifert, Bolzano, Circolo Culturale ANPI, 2002. Review

References

1. ^ USHMM.org
2. ^ BBC report on Seifert
3. ^ BBC report on Seifert, ibid.
4. ^ O'Neil, Peter (2008-02-25). "Accused Nazi war criminal waits in cell with all 'necessary conveniences'". Times Colonist (Victoria: Canwest). http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=d7d8426d-f9c3-4dce-8d71-263b1b50e78e. Retrieved 2008-03-08. 
5. ^ "BBC News - Nazi war criminal Michael Seifert dies in Italy". bbc.co.uk. November 6, 2010. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11704536. Retrieved 6 November 2010. 

External links

• Canada sends ex-SS guard to Italy (BBC)
• War-crimes fugitive loses appeal bid (canada.com)
• Michael Seifert - The Independent Obituary - 15 November 2010

Persondata
Name	Seifert, Michael
Alternative names
Short description	Ukrainian Nazi war criminal
Date of birth	March 16, 1924
Place of birth	Landau (present-day Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine)
Date of death	November 6, 2010
Place of death	Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Italy

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