Alfred Mathias Concina

Alfred Mathias Concina (born March 25, 1919 in Oelsnitz; † October 29, 2012 ) was an SS-Unterscharfuhrer of the 16th SS Panzergrenadier Division "Reichsführer SS" who was involved in the massacre in the Italian village of Sant ' on August 12, 1944 Anna di Stazzema was involved.

Concina, who was a member of the NSDAP , joined the SS in 1943 with the rank of sergeant after having previously served in the Air Force . In July 1943 he was injured in the shoulder by a shrapnel and after his recovery he was transferred to the SS Division Totenkopf . He then joined the 7th Company of the 16th SS Panzer Grenadier Division "Reichsführer SS".

2002 opened the military prosecutor's office in La Spezia proceedings against alleged perpetrators of the massacre in Sant'Anna di Stazzema. This only became possible after the files, which had already been set up after the end of the Second World War, had been kept in the so-called closet of shame for a long time . In 2004 the trial began at the La Spezia Military Tribunal. In the same year Richter admitted in an interview with the journalist Christine Kohl that he had been in Sant'Anna di Stazzema during the war.

On June 22, 2005 Concina, Karl Gropler , Gerhard Sommer , Alfred Schöneberg , Werner Bruß , Heinrich Schendel , Ludwig Heinrich Sonntag , Georg Rauch , Gerhard Sommer and Ludwig Göring were sentenced to life imprisonment and compensation in absentia. The judgment was upheld in 2006 by the Court of Appeal in Rome in the second instance and in 2007 by the Supreme Court of Cassation in the third and last instance. Through his testimony at an interrogation by the military court in La Spezia, he was not only a defendant, but also a witness. Concina was also the only defendant to speak out in front of the media.

In Germany, an investigation against Concina has been taking place since 2002, but the proceedings were ultimately dropped.

Until his death, Concina lived in a senior citizens' home in Freiberg , which had been the scene of several demonstrations by anti-fascist and neo-Nazi groups since it became known.

See also

• Closet of shame

Web links

• La Spezia Military Court judgment 2005 (Italian)
• The murderers of Sant'Anna di Stazzema are among us ( Memento of August 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Freibaerger, issue no.50, June 2006
• Actions against SS murderers too radical? ( Memento of August 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Freibaerger, issue no.51, August 2006
• The massacre of Sant'Anna di Stazzema on August 12, 1944 - Material collection 1 for a nationwide campaign to bring charges in Germany May 2006, ( PDF 880 kB)
• Bernd Michael Uhl: Criminal prosecution of Alfred Mathias Concina, 16th Panzer Grenadier Division Reichsführer SS Legal policy initiative on the Alfred Concina case from the research approach "System criticism: German judicial crimes"
• Former SS member Concina is threatened with imprisonment ( memento from January 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), MDR “Sachsenspiegel” from January 6, 2006

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sentenza del Tribunale militare di La Spezia, in data 22 July 2005, depositata il 20 September 2005. La posizione degli imputati. In: difesa.it. Retrieved September 27, 2019 (Italian). 
2. ↑ Silvia Buzzelli, Marco De Paolis, Andrea Speranzoni: La ricostruzione giudiziale dei crimini nazifascisti in Italia. Questioni preliminari. Giappichelli, Turin 2012 ISBN 978-88-348-2619-5 . Pp. 145-146
3. ^ The massacre of Sant'Anna di Stazzema on August 12, 1944 - Collection of materials 1 for a nationwide campaign to bring charges in Germany May 2006, pp. 19/20/32/34/37, ( PDF 880 kB)
4. ^ Alfred Mathias Concina . In: Academic dictionaries and encyclopedias . ( deacademic.com [accessed June 19, 2018]).