Georg Schlosser, a former police inspector, jailed since 1958 on charges of committing mass murders during World War II, was today released from prison in Bamberg. Schlosser stands accused of mass murders in the Czenstochow Ghetto in 1942-1943. However, some of the witnesses needed for his scheduled trial have been too ill to appear in court. The man was, therefore, freed.
The Lower Bavarian Government today notified the town council of Ansbach that it must cancel a pension previously granted to H. Haneu, former Mayor of the town. According to Lower Bavarian officials, Haneu had been appointed Mayor of Ansbach, in 1934, “only because of his close association with the Nazi Party.” However, the Ansbach council had granted him a full pension which it must now revoke or find the pension suspended by state officials.
Dr. Franz Lucas, chief gynecologist at the Elmshorn Municipal Hospital in Kiel, was dismissed from his post today after the Frankfurt Chief Public Prosecutor initiated proceedings against him on charges of having participated in the selection of ill and invalid inmates of concentration camps who were killed in gas chambers. Dr. Lucas served as a physician in the notorious Auschwitz,. Ravensbrueck, Sachsenhausen, Mauthausen and Stutthof concentration camps.
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