German neo-Nazi suspected of deadly 1970 fire at Jewish retirement home
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The arson attack has long been seen as one of the worst attacks targeting Germany's post-war Jewish community German investigators believe they have now identified an arsonist who set fire to a Jewish community centre in Munich in 1970, killing seven people.
长期以来，纵火袭击一直被视为针对德国战后犹太社区的最严重的袭击之一 德国调查人员认为，他们现已确定一名纵火犯的身份，他于 1970 年纵火焚烧了慕尼黑的一个犹太社区中心，造成 7 人死亡。
For decades the man's identity remained a mystery.
几十年来，该男子的身份一直是个谜。
But Munich prosecutors now believe he was a 25-year-old lone neo-Nazi with known antisemitic opinions. The seven killed were all Holocaust survivors aged 59 to 71.
但慕尼黑检察官现在认为，他是一名 25 岁的孤独新纳粹分子，有着众所周知的反犹太主义观点。 七名遇难者均为年龄在 59 岁至 71 岁之间的大屠杀幸存者。
Another 15 people were injured. The prosecutors' revelations come too late to secure justice for the victims.
另有15人受伤。 检察官的揭露来得太晚，无法为受害者伸张正义。
The suspect, identified by Der Spiegel magazine as Bernd V, died in 2020. At about 20:40 on 13 February 1970, prosecutors say the killer poured petrol into the wooden stairwell at a retirement home housed inside the Jewish community building on Reichenbachstrasse, and then set it alight.
《明镜周刊》确认嫌疑人为 Bernd V，于 2020 年死亡。 1970 年 2 月 13 日 20 点 40 分左右，检察官称凶手将汽油倒入赖兴巴赫大街犹太社区大楼内一所养老院的木制楼梯间，然后将其点燃。
The fire spread quickly to the top floor of the building. While many managed to escape to the roof or were rescued by firefighters, four of the victims died in the stairwell and another died after jumping from a window.
火势迅速蔓延至大楼顶层。 虽然许多人设法逃到屋顶或被消防员救出，但其中四名受害者在楼梯间死亡，另一名受害者从窗户跳下死亡。
Prosecutors now believe they have "compelling grounds pointing to the (deceased) suspect being the perpetrator", based on "credible information" from a woman, who came forward last year after the death of a close relative who had known the man well.
检察官现在认为，根据一名妇女提供的“可靠信息”，他们有“令人信服的理由表明（已故）嫌疑人是肇事者”。去年，这名妇女在一位熟悉该男子的近亲去世后挺身而出。
According to prosecutors, the suspected killer was heard to claim within the immediate vicinity of the community building that "the Jews had everything" and he wanted to "set them on fire".
据检察官称，凶手嫌疑人在社区大楼附近声称“犹太人拥有一切”，他想“放火烧他们”。
Fifteen minutes later, the building was engulfed in flames. Authorities say those remarks have been corroborated by other members of the witness's family.
十五分钟后，大楼被大火吞没。 当局表示，这些言论已得到证人家人其他成员的证实。
They say other witnesses described the man as having a "Hitler-fixation" - and how he had listened to records of speeches by the Nazi dictator in his youth. One head teacher told them the suspect had apparently used a Hitler-youth dagger, given to him by his father, during a confrontation.
他们说，其他目击者称该男子有“希特勒迷恋”，以及他年轻时如何聆听这位纳粹独裁者的演讲录音。 一名班主任告诉他们，嫌疑人在一次对抗中显然使用了他父亲送给他的希特勒青年时期的匕首。
He was later given a juvenile conviction for blowing up two phone kiosks. Spiegel reports that the female witness's relative had once been a member of a gang of burglars and that on the night of the arson attack on the retirement home they had taken part in a failed raid on a jewellery store in nearby Gärtnerplatz.
后来他因炸毁两个电话亭而被定罪。 《明镜周刊》报道称，这名女证人的亲戚曾经是一个窃贼团伙的成员，在养老院遭到纵火袭击的当晚，他们参与了对附近加特纳广场一家珠宝店的突袭，但失败了。
The relative said the botched burglary had infuriated Bernd V and stirred him into an antisemitic rage.
这位亲戚说，这起拙劣的入室盗窃案激怒了贝恩德五世，并激起了他反犹太主义的愤怒。
The investigation into the arson attack was closed in 2017 because of a lack of conclusive evidence, before being re-opened last year.
由于缺乏确凿证据，对纵火袭击事件的调查于 2017 年结束，去年重新启动。
Prosecutors say the presumption of innocence still applies, even after a suspect's death, and they have also said there is no reliable evidence to suggest anyone else was involved in the attack.
检察官表示，即使在嫌疑人死亡后，无罪推定仍然适用，而且他们还表示，没有可靠的证据表明还有其他人参与了袭击。
Fifty-six years later, German authorities are now confident they have cracked a notorious antisemitic crime.
五十六年后，德国当局现在确信他们已经破获了一起臭名昭著的反犹太主义犯罪。
However, the case will quite likely be seen as a historic failure by police.
然而，此案很可能被警方视为历史性的失败。
Bernd V's name had been brought to the attention of investigators in the early 1970s, according to Spiegel by a man who shared a prison cell with him.
据 Spiegel 称，贝恩德五世的名字在 20 世纪 70 年代初就被一名与贝恩德五世同住一间牢房的男子引起了调查人员的注意。
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