An enraged crowd yesterday broke through a cordon of police and ripped the hood from the head of a condemned Nazi as he stood on the gallows, so that they might witness his death agonies.
The crowd was provoked when the doomed man, a Hungarian named Kaesman Baritz, shouted from the scaffold that he had killed hundreds more Jews and partisans than was brought out at his trial. He added that he was of Jewish descent. When the executioner moved toward him he kicked him away, setting off the disturbance which ended when he was hanged.
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