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Three-week Trial of Nazis Charged with Killing 6,600 Minsk Jews Ends

June 8, 1961
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Life imprisonment was demanded today by the prosecution at the close of a three-week trial for Karl Zenner, 62, and a ten-year term for Hans Renners, 55, former officers of a Nazi Einsatz Commando unit. The two former Nazis were tried on charges of complicity in the murder of 6,600 Jews in Minsk, Russia during 1941.

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