A witness from Israel testified in a Stuttgart court Friday that during World War II he saw Nazi war criminal Josef Schwammberger murder two Jewish women and a child in cold blood.
Zvi Sharon, an Israeli, said the child was shot in head by Schwammberger in December 1942 at the Przemysl concentration camp in Poland, where Schwammberger was commandant and Sharon an inmate at the time.
The witness said that at the beginning of 1943, he saw Schwammberger shoot two Jewish women in their heads while they stood near the ghetto walls trying to exchange jewelry for food.
Schwammberger, 78, was extradited from Argentina last year to stand trial for war crimes, including the murders of several thousand Jewish inmates of concentration camps in Poland that he commanded. He has denied the charges.
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