The high court at Baden Baden announced today that it would hand down a decision Friday on the appeals by prosecutor and defendant against the sentence of five years imprisonment imposed on Helmut Reinhard, a former chief of the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police, following his conviction for having ordered the deportation of several hundred Norwegian Jews to the Auschwitz death camp.
Reinhard appealed the verdict, claiming that in 1942 he had not known that deportation to Auschwitz meant death. The public prosecutor appealed the sentence on the grounds that it was too lenient. Reinhard managed to avoid arrest for many years after the war. His wife had him declared officially dead and the ex-Nazi assumed a new identity under which he remarried his wife and lived respectably in Baden Baden until his arrest.
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