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High Austrian Official Goes on Trial for Killing Jews in Ukraine

July 24, 1961
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Dr. Franz Ratzenberger, a high Austrian police official, went on trial here today on charges of having given the orders for the execution of 300 Jews in the Ukraine in 1942. He was the commander of the Nazi security police in the Berdichev area during World War II.

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