A court in Hamburg sentenced former SS official and police major Viktor Arajs, 69, to life imprisonment for responsibility In the murder of 13,000 Jews. The court found that Arajs participated in the evacuation of the Riga ghetto on Dec. 8, 1941, after which he took part in mass shootings in the woods of Rumbula outside Riga.
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