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Half-jewish Nazi Shot Three Jewish Women to Save Jewish Father; Sentenced to 10 Years

January 22, 1946
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The story of a half-Jewish Nazi, who encountered his Jewish father, while on a “Jew hunt,” was told today at the trial of Rudolph Kramer, a Nazi whose mother was German.

Kramer’s commander agreed to spare his father’s life, if Kramer would shoot three Jewish women, which he did, the evidence revealed. Kramer was sentenced to ten years imprisonment.

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