Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan, a former Nazi who became an American citizen and was extradited to West Germany in 1973 as a Nazi war crimes suspect, has been freed on $17,000 bail. The Austrian-born Mrs. Ryan, 58, who had been on trial in Dusseldorf, charged with participating in the murder of inmates at a concentration camp in Lublin, Poland, had been free on bail.
During a recess in the trial, she allegedly accosted one of the witnesses in a corridor outside the courtroom and tried to influence the witness’ testimony. The court ordered Mrs. Ryan back to jail, but appeals from her lawyer won her release and she was continued free on bail. While in the U.S., she resided in Queens, N.Y. She relinquished her American citizenship when it was learned she obtained it by lying about her Nazi past.
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