A Salsburg jury acquitted today two brothers, “Wilhelm and Johann Maurer, of charges of participating in mass murders of Jews in occupied Poland on grounds that they had acted under “compulsory orders.”
The Calsburg Senate immediately acted to suspend the verdict and submitted the court proceedings for review by the Austrian High Court. A number of survivors gave eye-witness testimony that the Mauer brothers had killed Jews in Stanislawow. Witnesses had been brought from several countries, including Israel.
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