Holocaust survivor's daughter sues historian over claim of lesbian liaison with Nazi guard

Warwick University academic broke German court ruling that protected dead woman's reputation'

The daughter of a Holocaust survivor has begun a legal battle to protect her deceased mother's reputation from allegations that she had a lesbian relationship with an SS guard.

Earlier this year, a German court ruled that Dr Anna Hajkova, associate professor of modern continental European history at Warwick University, had violated the woman's postmortem personality rights by publicly claiming that she had a sexual relationship with the Nazi guard while imprisoned in concentration camps.