A descendant of a WWII Nazi wants to sue the Warsaw Rising Museum for describing the German general as being a “war criminal”.

Warsaw Rising museum

To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Rising a special exhibition depicting the tragedy of the city and its inhabitants was organised in Berlin by the Warsaw Rising Museum .

Among the thousands of visitors was Christoph Broszies from Berlin, who was outraged by a caption under one of the photographs of generals Erich von dem Bach Zelewski, Heinz Reinfarth and Rainer Stahel describing them as war criminals.

Broszies is a relative of General Stahel and demands that unless the Museum withdraws the description, he will sue, since the man had not been tried and sentenced as a war criminal.

Rainer Stahel was nominated as commander of the occupying Warsaw garrison during the uprising of 1944 and on the second day of the Rising on August 2nd he issued an order to kill all men suspected for being insurgents as well as capture civilians to use them as live shields in the fights with the insurgents.

“A situation where we are to prove that a man on whose orders thousands of civilians in Warsaw were killed , is a war criminal seems incomprehensible” says Jan Ołdakowski the director of the museum in Warsaw.