Former SS Major Otto Hunsche collapsed yesterday in the court trying him and former SS Col. Herman Krumey on charges of complicity in the wartime murder of 450, 000 Hungarian Jews.
The collapse was ascribed to a circulatory ailment. The court adjourned the hearing until Tuesday; The two former Nazis served as key aides to Adolf Eichmann when he directed thr roundup and deportation of the Hungarian Jews to Nazi death camps.
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