A German prosecutor who was scheduled to give evidence against alleged Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon returned home after receiving a death threat. Rolf Holtfort, who has heart problems, was a state prosecutor at the 1980 trial of Kurt Lischka, the head of the Gestapo in occupied Paris.
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