A concentration camp survivor accused an 89-year-old former SS officer of beating a Jewish inmate with a club for not appearing for roll call. The witness, an 80-year-old former Czech resistance fighter, testified in a Munich court against Anton Malloth, who faces three counts of murder and one of attempted murder when he was a Nazi guard at the Theresienstadt camp near Prague.
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