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Ex-nazi Official Charged with Killing Jews Commits Suicide in Jail

April 10, 1961
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Heinrich Heimann, 58-year-old former officer of Hitler’s Elite Guard, awaiting trial at Landsberg on charges of having shot “several thousand Jews and other civilian personnel” during the war, in Poland, hanged himself in his jail cell this weekend. German authorities say he is the fourth accused Nazi to have committed suicide since the capture of Adolf Eichmann last May.

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