A Buenos Aires court rejected today an appeal by Gerhard Bohne, who fled from West Germany to avoid trial in a Nazi euthanasia case, for political asylum in Argentina.
Bohne was one of four former officials of the Hitler program for disposing of Germans deemed unfit to live. An estimated 200,000 persons were put to death in the program. Bonne jumped bail and escaped before the trial began in Limburg.
Argentine President Arturo Alia, responding to an appeal from West Germany in March, agreed to Bohne’s extradition. The former Nazi began a court fight to prevent his being returned to Limburg.
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