The commandant of the Monowitz sector of the Auschwitz concentration camp under the Nazi regime, now serving a life sentence for murder, was re-indicted here today on an additional charge of killing 30 prisoners during World War II.
The man is Bernhard Rakers. He received the sentence of life imprisonment after a trial that ended in 1952. In the new indictment, he is accused of having murdered 30 more prisoners while they were being transported from Auschwitz to the Sachsenhausen camp in 1945.
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