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German Prosecutor Asks Life Sentence for Nazi Guards Who Killed Jews

January 22, 1959
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The prosecution today asked life sentence for ex-concentration camp guards Wilhelm Schubert and Gustav Sorge charged with responsibility in the murder of some 11, 000 people at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, many of them Jews.

The prosecutor asserted that their guilt was proved in 159 cases of murder. The life term is the maximum under German law. The defense will begin its summation next Monday. The trial of the two Nazi guards has been going on for several months, attracting world-wide attention.

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