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Arrest Three in 1945 Slaying of Five Released Nazi Victims

September 5, 1956
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The arrest of three former village guards, charged with the murder of five freed concentration camp inmates in 1945, was disclosed today. The three guards were employed by the village of Gallneukirchen, in Upper Austria. According to the charge, they captured five men, who had been freed from the Mathausen camp, when they halted in the village on their trek, homeward. The five were seized in a barn, where they were sleeping, marched to a nearby garden and shot to death.

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