Sentences of six and four years were demanded by the prosecution yesterday against two former members of the Tilsit Einsatz Commando, Richard Wiechert, 56, a former Gestapo secretary, and Bruno Schulz, 58, a former SS leader. They were charged with the murder of several hundred Jews in Lithuania in 1941 during the Nazi occupation.
At the same time the Ministry of Justice here said today that Ludwig Zind, the West German teacher who fled to escape a year’s jail term for publicly declaring that “not enough Jews were gassed,” will remain a fugitive from West German justice “for at least another five years.”
Zind, who fled to Italy en route to South America was spotted by some Israeli sailors at Naples and turned over to police. He remained in jail after a lower court held that he was guilty of a political crime and therefore entitled to political asylum. That ruling was upheld by the Court of Cassation in Rome, Italy’s highest court, which ordered Zinds release.
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