A German prosecutor urged a life sentence for a former SS officer accused of killing seven Jewish prisoners as they dug trenches in 1945 near the Theresienstadt prison in Czechoslovakia. “There’s no evidence to suggest” Julius Viel was “acting on orders,” prosecutor Kurt Schrimm said. Viel, who later became a respected journalist, said he was in Vienna when the seven Jews were murdered.
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