A West German criminal court in Cologne yesterday sentenced Emanuel Schaefer, former Nazi security police chief in Serbia, to six and a half years in prison for sharing responsibility in the 1942 killing of more than 6, 000 Jews in a special camp in Belgrade. Schaefer was arrested in 1951 in West Germany, where he had been living under a false name.
In Hamburg, German police captain Karl Klarmann was sentenced to six years’ penal servitude by a local jury court, which found him guilty of “participation in murder” in three instance’s. The district attorney had demanded a life term because of Klarmann’s established major part in the 1942 massacre of more than a thousand Jewish hostages in the ghetto of Stanislau in Galicia.
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