Gerhard Schneider, a former SS leader, was under arrest here today on charges of participation in the shooting of thousands of Jewish men, women and children in Poland and Russia in 1941, when he was chief of an SS Commando group. The 46-year-old defendant was found working as an employee of the Economics Ministry of Lower Saxony.
Two police officials in Bielefeld, Ewald Sudau of Minden and Herbert Schmidke of Bielefeld, were arrested earlier and charged with the murder of hundreds of Lithuanian and Jewish civilians in 1941 when the two men were Gestapo members in Tilsit.
Schneider, Sudau and Schmidke were accused by witnesses last summer, during the Tilsit Einsatz-Commando trial in Ulm, at which 10 former Gestapo and SS members were sentenced to long prison terms for the murders of more than 5,000 persons.
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