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German Courts Start Trials Against Nazis Charged with Looting and Deporting Jews

January 4, 1949
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Paul Ohler, former secretary of the Gestapo in Nuremberg, has been sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment by a local German court. Ohler was convicted of deporting Jews and enriching himself by plundering their property.

In Munich, a former S.S. guard at the Dachau concentration camp who was accused in court of beating prisoners to death, was given a five-year sentence by a German court, while in Regensburg a physician, Dr. Max Schreier, was sentenced to four years in a labor camp and loss of half of his property for participating in Nazi pogroms in November, 1938. In Augsburg a former police chief, Wilhelm Stark, and his assistant, Rudolf Dockhorn, received a four-year and. a nine-month sentence, respectively, for anti-Jewish activities.

The Jewish community of Weiden, in Bavaria, has had restored to it the premises of its synagogue which was seized by the Nazis. Present at the restitution ceremony were representatives of the military government and the Bavarian provincial administration including Dr. Philip Auerbach, Bavarian Commissioner for Persecutees.

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