An East German court yesterday condemned to death 15 former Nazis convicted of participation in a week-long pogrom in 1933 against Jews and anti-Nazis in the town of Kopenick. Ten of the 15 were condemned in absentia
In all a total of 56 defendants were tried, with 46 in the dock. The remaining ten refused to leave West Germany to stand trial. Witnesses for the prosecution were survivors of “Kopenick Blood Week.” Prison sentences from five years to life at hard labor were imposed upon the remaining defendants.
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