Thursday, October 5th
Adalbert Lallier
The Other Side of War
Hungarian -born Lallier, retired Concordia University professor, was forcibly inducted into the SS at 17. In 1945 at 19 he witnessed Julius Viel raise his rifle and randomly shoot seven Jews suddenly and without provocation. Responding to his decades long agony of conscience, after fifty five years Lallier went to Stuttgart, Germany, to testify against Viel who was successfully charged.