A suspected Nazi war criminal living in Scotland is too ill to stand trial, London’s Jewish Chronicle reported. Anton Gecas, 85, is accused of participating in the killing of Jews and other civilians in what is now Belarus as head of a pro-Nazi police battalion. He suffered two strokes earlier this year and has been hospitalized since May.
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