Dr. Egon Schoenpflug, 45, has been arrested by the Austrian police, it was announced today on a German extradition warrant.
Schoenpflug was identified in the Munich war crimes trials as a former high Nazi police officer responsible for mass murders in German-occupied Poland and the Ukraine.
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