As the 3D technology may help convict the nazis of Auschwitz – the guardian

Various media have reported how investigators, prosecutors and judges can use a new technological tool that allows a kind of time travel, to reconstruct in detail the locations, where at least 1.1 million people were murdered during the Second World War.

The three-dimensional model (3-D) reproduces the view of a member of the German forces the SS on the ground, so it can be used “in court to rebut the objections of the suspects who claim to have witnessed executions or marches to the gas chambers of the places where they were”, explained Jens Rommel, head of department at the German federal office for the investigation of the war crimes of the nazis.

The news agency France-Presse, Rommel had said that the legislative level the question is of intent: “should a suspect to know that people were going to be taken to the gas chambers or fuziladas? This model is very good and very modern for the research, because it can help to answer this question”.

The reconstruction of the digital has been developed by specialists of the Institute of Criminal of the state of Bavaria, who visited for the first time the locations in 2013, and used several sources of information that belong to the one who is considered to be one of the most infamous sites used by the nazi regime for a program of extermination, especially of jews.

For this work have been used countless documents, lasers to ‘capture’ images of fences, guard towers and buildings, as well as aerial photographs to achieve the highest accuracy possible.

The tool allows the vision of the local, whether in terms of summer or winter.

Rommel leads a team of six judges and prosecutors that in the last four years have found 30 suspected of crimes in Auschwitz and delivered the cases to Justice.

After the last criminal cases are concluded, the German authorities admit that the digital model can be borrowed to some of the monuments that are reminiscent of the Burnt offering.

“of Course we have to take extreme care with the robberies,” said one of the creators of the system, Ralf Breker, to anticipate the “nightmare”, in particular due to the use of those data to create computer games.

The expert anticipated, still, the use of these 3D models in other scenarios of the crime to assist the investigation.