Four Gestapo guards and prison trustees were today (##)tenced to life imprisonment by an American war crimes court at Dachau for tor(##)ring inmates of the Muehldorf concentration camp. Two other defendants were given (##)secutive terms of four and fifteen years, while a seventh was acquitted.
The Muehldorf camp, which is about 60 miles from Dachau, housed some 8,300 (##)isoners, almost all Jews, who were building an underground aircraft factory. Tes(##)mony revealed that some 47 percent of the prisoners were beat, shot and tortured death. The remainder were scheduled for extermination but were rescued by the (##)vancing Americian armies.
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