Wilhelm Boger, one of the principal defendants among the 22 former Auschwitz-Birkenau SS men facing trial here since December for the murder of millions of Jews, grinned in the court room today as one witness described how Boger beat him mercilessly into unconsciousness, revived him with a bucket of cold water, then placed him in a “stand-up cell” for 93 days.
The witness was Hugo Peter Breiden, of Stuttgart, who had spent four years at Auschwitz for a criminal offense. Pointing a finger at Boger, and sobbing convulsively, Breiden shouted “you murderer, you.” Boger seemed not to care.
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