Ernst Basedow was sentenced today to ten years imprisonment on charges of being connected with the 1943 murder of 27 men, 35 women and nine children–all Jews–in a village near Bourges. The prosecutor had demanded the death penalty.
The Jews had been murdered as reprisal for the execution by the underground of Phillippe Henriot, who collaborated with the Nazis. The bodies of the 71 murdered Jews were thrown into a well and covered with quicklime. Some of he victims of the massacre were said to have been alive when they were thrown into the well.
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