Gerhard Peters, former director of the German Association to Fight Insects, was sentenced today to four-and-a-half years at hard labor for supplying poison gas to the Oswiecim extermination camp, in Nazi-occupied Poland, where hundreds of thousands of Jews were gassed.
The verdict was handed down by a court in Wiesbaden which rejected the request of the prosecutor that the accused be sentenced to 15 years. The judge said that the request could not be granted because insufficient evidence has been presented to justify a 15-year sentence.
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