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Arrested Chief of Auschwitz Camp Transferred to Frankfurt Jail

December 22, 1960
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Richard Baer, 49-year-old ex-major in Hitler’s SS, the Nazi Elite Guard, and last commandant of the infamous Auschwitz extermination camp, was transferred to a prison in this city today from Hamburg where he was arrested yesterday.

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