Gottlieb Musikant, former SS medical orderly, was sentenced this weekend to 21 terms of life imprisonment for the proven murder of 21 prisoners in the Mauthausen and Steyr concentration camps in Austria. The court also ordered revocation of his civil rights for life.
The prosecution had demanded a life sentence "35 times over" at the close of the three-week trial. The court was told that testimony had shown that Muzikant murdered at least 35 persons in the two camps. In addition, the prosecutor said in his summary, the 57-year-old defendant was proven to have killed at least 210 camp inmates by strangulations, beatings and lethal injections.
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