Alfred Rapp, formerly a colonel in Hitler’s SS, who has been on trial here for the murder of at least 10,000 Jews during World War II, was sentenced here today to 10 terms of life imprisonment. It was believed to be the most severe prison sentence short of death, ever meted out to a convicted Nazi criminal.
Rapp had been charged with supervision of 10 mass killings of Jews in 1942 at Klinzy, in the Soviet Union. He had told the court he would not plead innocent, declaring that “what happened was so terrible that I cannot and will not ask for mercy.”
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