George Marschall, a former SS man, was under sentence of life imprisonment today after being found guilty of murdering Joseph Dlener, a Jew, in 1942 in the market place in Sdolbunow, Poland.
West German officials meanwhile announced the arrest of Wolfgang Seuss in the Saarland. The 52-year-old former SS guard at the Dachau murder camp had been serving a prison term in France. He is accused of killing two Jews in the Dachau camp in 1938 by throwing them into a cement-mixer.
Two men accused of participating in the recent spate of anti-Semitic manifestations were given four-month Jail sentences today. At Stuttgart, the sentence was imposed a 28-year-old locksmith convicted of uttering anti-Semitic remarks. The same was meted out to a 40-year-old man at Duisburg for a similar offense.
Meanwhile, st Stuttgart, a 19-year-old youth went on trial today, accused of daubing the swastika on the bulletin board of a German army barracks. At Pinneberg, a 16-year-old boy was arrested for painting the swastika on an air force barracks wall.
Hans Wagner, of Bayreuth, near here, was sentenced yesterday to four weeks’ imprisonment for displaying a Nazi symbol.
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