The Superior Court at Bamberg rejected today an appeal against the arrest of Martin Sommer, known as the “Beast of Buchenwald, ” on charges of having committed 67 murders and participated in others during his stay as a SS official at the concentration camp. The court ordered him held in jail pending trail.
Sommer, who is charged with having personally beaten hundreds of Jews to death, escaped trial for the last seven years on the basis of physicians’ rulings that he was “wholly unfit to stand trial.” When arrested at Beyrouth last month, following a recent marriage, he was occupying a private room in a veterans hospital and drawing a substantial pension.
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