The State prosecutor in the trial of Heinrich Hamann, wartime head of the German security police in Neu Sandz, in occupied Poland, demanded today a sentence of life imprisonment at hard labor for the defendant in a Nazi war crimes trial at Bochum.
Hamann, charged with participation in the murder of 17,000 Polish Jews, testified he felt regret and shame over the crimes. The prosecution demand was based on testimony involving Hamann in 76 cases of murder. The trial started in October, 1965.
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