An American military court in Stuttgart yesterday sentenced three Germans for circulating rumors that Polish-Jewish DP’s were kidnapping and murdering young German girls and selling their flesh on the black market.
Two of the Germans were jailed for six months, while the third received a four-month suspended sentence.
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