The Hamburg court trying the former Gestapo chief in Warsaw, Ludwig Hahn, began this week cross-examining witnesses in the Polish capital. Hahn has been on trial since May for the murder of an indefinite number of Jewish and Polish inmates of the infamous Pawiak prison in Warsaw between the winter of 1941 and Aug. 1944. The Polish surgeon Dr. Felician Loth, himself an inmate recruited to work as prison doctor, said many inmates went to Gestapo headquarters for questioning and never came back and many were shot or hanged in the prison cellars.
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