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High Police Official in Cologne Arrested for Wartime Murder of Jews

April 4, 1968
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The head of the homicide squad of the general crime investigations bureau here was arrested today on suspicion of having ordered the shooting of 18 Jewish civilians when he was head of an Einsatzkommando group during the war.

The suspect is Theodor Lapps### the and of ### commissioner. He is considered one of Germany’s leading ###against the basic of an investigation by the Munich State Prosecutor.

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