A Wiesbaden jury hearing the cases of five former SS officers charged with the mass murder of Jews in the Lublin district of Poland during World War II, will go to Tel Aviv next month to take testimony from witnesses who are too old or ill to come to Germany. More than 90 witnesses have already testified in the trial which has lasted almost a year.
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