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French Court Dooms Former Guards of Nazi Extermination Camp

May 19, 1955
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Three former Nazi guards at the Struthof concentration camps where many thousands of Frenchmen Jews and non Jews met their death during the occupation of France were condemned to death by a military tour here yesterday Two other defendants drew long prison terms.

The defendants all of whom were condemned at an earlier military trial are Albert Fuchs. Wolfgang Seuss and Franz Ehrmanntraut condemned. Herbert Oehler sentenced to life imprisonment and Robert Nitsch sentenced to 15 years

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