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Trial of Ex-nazi Leader Charged with Murdering Jews Opens in Germany

November 10, 1960
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The trial of former SS troop leader George Schlosser, charged with the murder of eight Jewish men and women in the Czenatochowa Ghetto, in Poland, opened in the District Court here today. A Jury in Hanau had acquitted Schlosser in the summer of 1958 because of lack of evidence. Shortly after his release, he was re-arrested on the bads of new testimony.

Former SS guard Albert Mayer was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment in Hanover today, after he was found guilty of complicity in the murder of one prisoner at the Grossrosen concentration camp, and of fatally wounding five others. The prosecution which charged Mayer with having murdered 14 prisoners and having injured 27 others, had asked the court for a life sentence for the former block leader of the camp.

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