The Max Merten trial in Athens
Max Merten was an administrative officer of Army Group E in Saloniki. Merten signed orders for the identification, ghettoisation and confiscation of property of Jews. These measures made it easier for Alois Brunner and Dieter Wisliceny to carry out the mass murder of the Jews of Saloniki. On 6 February 1943, Merten signed an order issued by Johannes Haarde, commander of Thessaloniki and the Aegean Sea, which initiated the identification and ghettoisation of the Jews of Thessaloniki. From spring 1943 on, 48,974 Jews from Saloniki were deported to extermination camps in Poland,...