The former commander of the ghetto in the city of Sambor, Poland, a Nazi named Adolph Zinter, committed suicide in prison where he was being held for trial as a war criminal, it was reported here today.
Zinter was apprehended at the Silesian town of Trzciniec (Hirschewalde) when he was spotted among a group of German workers crossing into Silesia to work on construction jobs. He is believed to have been responsible for the death of more than 1,000 Jews.
Ludwig Fischer, the former German commandant of Warsaw, will go on trial here shortly as a war criminal. The liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto occurred while Fischer was in command of the city.
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