Reckoning with the Nazi past of the man who helped build Mt Hutt skifield | Stuff

Mr and Mrs Willi and Edna Huber

We may never know the full truth about Huber’s four years in the service of the Nazi regime. But, while some secrets die hard, the truth sometimes has a way of coming to the surface.

In Autumn 1943, Soviet journalist Vasily Grossman saw mass graves in the areas of Eastern Europe where Huber served and where Nazi death squads murdered millions of Jews.

‘The earth is throwing out crushed bones, teeth, clothes, papers,’’ Grossman wrote.

“It does not want to keep secrets.”

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