A Czech journalist and a former S.S. officer today received 20-year sentences for crimes against Jews during the German occupation of the country. The sentences were handed down by a Prague Peoples court.
The journalist, Vladimir Bretenar, was convicted of editing anti-Semitic publications, informing against Jews and spying for the Nazis. Gerhard Guenal, the S.S. officer, who was deputy chief of the Central Jewish Office, escaped execution because, although he participated in the registration of Jews, it could not be proved that be mistreated them.
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