A Munich court has imposed a five-year prison sentence on former SS Obersturmfuehrer Max Drexel for complicity in seven cases of murder involving 770 Jews in Poland during World War 11. Another SS storm trooper, Walter Kehrer, was sentenced to four years imprisonment for abetting five cases of murder involving at least 800 victims. Both were officers in the notorious “Einsatzgruppe D.”
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