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Former Nazi Doctor Charged with 15,314 Counts of Murder in Concentration Camp Deaths

March 19, 1970
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Horst Schumann, a former Nazi doctor, has been charged in Frankfurt with 15,314 counts of murder in connection with concentration camp deaths during 1940-41, plus additional charges of fatal sterilisation and x-ray experiments. The accused, 63, was extradited from Ghana in 1966.

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