Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan, the Nazi concentration camp guard who later was a Queens, New York housewife and was extradited to West Germany in 1973 after losing a five-year court battle to retain her American citizenship, was indicted Wednesday in Duesseldorf with nine other Germans on charges connected with the killing of 250,000 inmates in a concentration camp. The trial is due to start this summer. Mrs. Ryan, 53, was one of five women guards at the Maidanek concentration camp near Lublin, Poland. After the war she married Russell Ryan, a former U.S. serviceman.
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