Nikolaus Schorn, 63, former commander of the concentration camp at Donnerskirchen, went on trial here today accused of the murder of 61 Jews and numerous other atrocities in January, 1945.
Witnesses accused Schorn of having clubbed to death 40 Hungarian Jewish slave workers, and of having drowned and shot others.
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