The former staff chief of the Nazi storm troops, Wilhelm Schepmann, today was ordered dropped from the pension rolls in a decision here by the Lower Saxony Administrative Court.
Schepmann recently resigned as Deputy Mayor of Gifhorn, a Lower Saxony town, after Social Democrats had protested against his holding that office, establishing that he had become the chief of staff of the S.A., the Hitler storm troops, in 1943. Now the court has ruled that, although he had “not committed acts against humanity” while serving in the Hitler forces, he was, nevertheless, guilty of “violating the principles of the legal state” and was therefore ineligible to pension benefits.
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