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Gestapo Colonel Arrested in Berlin; Charged with Killing Jews in Poland

July 18, 1961
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Leo Patina, former SS colonel, was arrested here today on charges of murdering 20 Jews in Poland, in 1939. According to the West Berlin prosecutor, the man killed the Jews with a submachinegun at Alexandrovsk.

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