Although the attack on a defenceless primary school teacher <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shocked the town of Dover to its core the incident soon faded from its collected memory<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vera Smith had made a full recovery and was now teaching at her school again <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her attacker a John Phillip Masters who was found dead at the crime scene was later confirmed to have died by his own hand <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And then it ended rather too quickly for many in the town <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Were some of the facts being hidden <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Questions were being asked mostly by over excited reporters <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And then on the 1st of September exactly four months to the day after the original incident <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A mans body was washed ashore in the Folkestone Warren area between the two towns <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He had been shot in the back of the head and his throat had been cut post-mortem<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The victim was soon identified as Michel Farmer an artist who had lived quietly in Dymchurch since the early sixties <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was well known in the locality <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Often exhibiting in a number of Kent towns <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And then came the bombshell that blew the whole investigation wide open <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Michael Farmer was soon found to be a former member of the SS who had been linked with a number of massacres of Jews during the Second World War <\/p>\n\n\n\n
His real name was Udo Becker and he had vanished during the later stages of the conflict and was presumed dead <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although he was still hunted by a number of agencies connected with Israel <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This alerted the right people in higher places and the investigation was taken over <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A veil of secrecy was thrown over proceedings <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And within the year a connection between Udo Becker and Klaus Becker was established <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the had both been members of a clandestine organisation named West Sweden which had been active in hiding ex- Nazi’s all over the world but especially in South America <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It had appeared to have faded after the capture and subsequent execution of Adolf Eichmann in 1962<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because of this Vera Smith a quiet mild mannered school teacher from Dover was re-interviewed along with her husband Stephen <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was during this time that Vera and Stephen were both found to have Polish roots <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The contents of these interviews were never released
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