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Nasi Sentenced to Life Imprisonment for Killing Jews in Poland

February 18, 1966
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Kurt Jericho, 57, was sentenced to life imprisonment in Lueneberg yesterday for murdering four Jews, including two children, in the Czenstochwa Ghetto in occupied Poland in 1942 and 1943. Alfred Loebel, 51, one of Jericho’s co-defendants, was acquitted.

The principal defendant is Paul Degenhardt, 71, charged with personally murdering or ordering the execution of 496 Jews in the ghetto and with helping to choose thousands of the ghettos 50,000 prisoners for the gas chambers at the Treblinka death camp. His trial will be continued.

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