Criminal proceedings will be dropped for Hack of evidence against Dr. Hans Muller, who has been accused of having experimented with tattooing skins of Jews while he was head of the “pathological section” of the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Dr. Muller turned himself over to the Stuttgart District Court almost a year ago, asking that the criminal charges against him be investigated. He insisted that his work as a pathologist at Buchenwald did not involve any criminal activity. Today, the prosecutor representing the District Court, announced that, so far, no direct evidence linking the physician with criminal activity has been obtained.
August Kolb, former Nazi leader at the infamous Sachsenhausen concentration camp, under arrest on charges of murdering and torturing prisoners, was released today in bail of 15, 000 Deutschemarks. He has been imprisoned in the Nurnberg-Fuerth jail since January. The District Court here granted the man’s release on bail, ruling that he is “too old and sick to try to escape.” Kolb is 65.
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