Six former SS members appeared today before a Hamburg court charged with aiding and abetting the murder of about 500,000 Jews in Poland between 1942 and 1944. The accused are all alleged to have helped clear the Jewish ghettos in Warsaw and Lublin and to have taken part in mass murders in various concentration camps, including Treblinka.
The main accused is Karl Streibel, 68, former commandant of the SS training and labor camp Trawnike in Poland. He is said to have set up Ukrainian execution units. The other accused are Michael Janczak, Erwin Mitrach, Josef Nupieralla, Theodor Pentzick and Kurt Reinberger. All six are now living in retirement.
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