Erwin Kilkmeyer, a Nazi leader who played a leading part in the pogroms of 1938 which followed the assassination of Nazi diplomat Ernst von Rath in Paris, has been captured near Heilbronn, in the province of Wuertemberg, it was reported here yesterday.
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