The local state prosecutor in Fuelda announced the arrest yesterday of Frich Schemel, a West German border policeman on charges of killing Jewish prisoners in concentration camps in the closing days of World War II.
The prosecutor’s office said that Schemel was suspected of killing two Jews at the Sachsenhousen camp in April 1954 and with participating in the slaying of 60 prisoners unable to walk.
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