Germany haunted again by Nazi scam of selling gold teeth from the dead
German state prosecutors are investigating nine crematorium workers and an accomplice who are suspected of having routinely sold off gold tooth fillings sifted from the ashes of hundreds of corpses in a case that has evoked disturbing memories of the Nazi Holocaust.
The nine stokers employed at Hamburg's Öjendorf crematorium have all been suspended from duty while prosecutors conduct their investigation. The probe follows a police raid on their homes in late August which netted €146,000 in unaccounted cash.
"We suspect the crematorium employees of having sold the gold fillings of the deceased over a period of several years," Wilhelm Möllers, Hamburg's chief state prosecutor, told the city's Abendblatt newspaper....
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The nine stokers employed at Hamburg's Öjendorf crematorium have all been suspended from duty while prosecutors conduct their investigation. The probe follows a police raid on their homes in late August which netted €146,000 in unaccounted cash.
"We suspect the crematorium employees of having sold the gold fillings of the deceased over a period of several years," Wilhelm Möllers, Hamburg's chief state prosecutor, told the city's Abendblatt newspaper....