A former Nazi officer who admitted to shooting 500 Jews at the Majdanek concentration camp was arrested in Germany. The man, who was identified by German security sources as Alfons Goetzfried, is also accused of being an accessory to 70,000 murders at Majdanek, located in what was then Polish territory. He was imprisoned in the Soviet Union for war crimes until 1958 and lived in Kazakhstan until 1991, when he was repatriated to Germany.
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