Franz Lechthaler, former German police officer, has received a three-and-a-half year prison term on conviction of having aided in the shooting of more than 500 Jews in Nazi-occupied Russia in World War II.
Willy Papenkort, a co-defendant who was accompany commander of Lechthaler’s police battalion, was freed for lack of evidence.
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