The death sentences of 13 high officers of the German. S.S. E####### Commani, Nazi race extermination squads, imposed by the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal. Last April, were today confirmed by General Lucius D. Clay, American commander in Germany. The execution dates were not announced. The Nuremberg tribunal found the 13 guilty of killing more than a million Jews, Gypsies and other racially inferior people” and opponents of the Nazi regime.
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