Josef Gabriel, a former Gestapo leader in Galicia during the Nazi regime, was sentenced today to life imprisonment after a one-week trial on charges of multiple killings of Jews.
Witnesses testified that the defendant personally shot several hundred Jews in Polish towns, including 50 children. The jurors unanimously rejected Gabriel’s defense that he had acted under “irresistible compulsion.”
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