Georg Michalsen, a 54-year-old former SS Major who served as deputy to Odilo Giobocnik, the Henchman of Lublin, was arrested near Hamburg two weeks ago, the Hamburg Prosecutor’s office reported yesterday.
Michalsen was tracked down in a nationwide search by the Central War Crimes Commission. He was found residing in a Hamburg suburb and working as a bookkeeper. He was charged with complicity in the murder of millions of Jews in the Nazi camps at Belzec, Treblinka, Sobibor and Majdanek.
A six-year sentence was demanded today by the prosecution for former SS General Bernard von Dem Bach Zelewski, for his participation in the shooting of an East Prussian landowner in the Roehm Putsch of 1934. The former SS General commanded an SS Einsatz Commando unit during World War II which murdered thousands of Poles and Jews.
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