Former SS official, Heinz Guenther Wisner, 64, goes on trial Sept. 17 in Duesseldorf. He is charged with the murder of 31 Jewish inmates of the Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp. For the last year Wisner has been in custody. According to a spokesman for the Duesseldorf Prosecutor’s Office, the Nazi official was the right hand of the doctor stationed in the concentration camp. His trial is likely to take six months.
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