The State Prosecutor of Hesse has demanded eight life sentences for Hermann Ebender, a 74-year-old resident of Fulda identified by witnesses as the murderer of eight Jewish inmates in the Dora Mittelbau concentration camp in Thueringen shortly before Germany’s surrender in World War II.
Ebender, a gypsy and himself a camp inmate, turned collaborator. The prosecution charges that he murdered the Jewish inmates for no motive other than enjoyment of the crime. In two instances he acted alone and in six he had accomplices. The killings occurred between January-March 1945.
Ebender has been living in obscurity in Fulda since the war. When he was arrested in November, 1982, he claimed mistaken identity. But he was identified by 49 witnesses who appeared at his trial.
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