Police at Graz today arrested a former Nazi SS officer, Stephan Rojko, on charges of having murdered “a number” of Jews in the Theresienstadt concentration camp during 1944 and 1945.
Czechoslovakian authorities recently requested the Federal government here that Rojko be extradited to Czechoslovakia.
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