This 17-year-old lad who, as has been proven, was assigned to odd jobs and farmwork on a German farm, was identified by Wizenthal-witnesses as a Jew-murderer wearing a German uniform. The boy had never worn a German uniform and was not in Poland during the years in question.

 

 The innocent Walus's protests and all references to Wizenthal's machinations were ignored and dismissed with the usual polite phrases.

 

Only one American senator found kind words for the retired factory worker Frank Walus, who had lost his house and his life savings in the course of the years-long legal proceedings.

 

Gottfried Weise, "the good SS-man with the one eye", called on former inmates for help: the Jewish women who had been in his charge in Auschwitz. 20 Jewesses from around the world answered his call and came to his trial to testify on his behalf. Verdict: life imprisonment.