Five German executioners who were captured at the Maidanek death camp were hanged on Monday in the presence of 20,000 persons, the Moscow radio reports. The executions took place in a public square in Lublin. The Nazis were convicted by a special court of the Polish Committee of National Liberation in Lublin.
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