Josef Gabriel, a former Gestapo official, went on trial today on charges of personally shooting 300 Jews and 50 Jewish children during the Hitler period in East Galicia.
The State’s Attorney’s indictment charged that Gabriel did his killing with pistols and machineguns in the Polish towns of Borslaw, Stryj and chose Jews from camps in these towns for liquidation. Witnesses have been brought to Vienna from all parts of the world for the trial which is expected to last eight days.
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