blue, that stopped me in my tracks also.

So did several other items –

the government in 1948 commuted the death sentences of two Berga commanders, Erwin Metz and his superior, Hauptmann Ludwig Merz. – why on earth would they do this?

Then the documents they had to sign – not to talk about escapes, people who had assisted them, people who had helped them.. Okay, that is reasonable – protecting those that assisted them. But the government must have worded those documents poorly – if all the men thought they were not to speak of the camp at all – ever again.