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High Ranking Nazi, Sought for Shooting a Jew, Traced in Germany

March 10, 1967
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Officials announced here today they had traced former SA General Fritz Gruettenmeir, a high-ranking Nazi sought since the end of the war. He is charged with having shot a leading Jewish journalist, Felix Fechenbach en route to the Dachau death camp in 1933. He was found to have been living under a false name since 1945.

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