Two brothers, Poles, who are former members of the Nazi SS, Johann and Wilhelm Mauer, pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges of taking part in the wartime shooting of 12,000 Polish Jews. They had been acquitted by a Salzburg court last February on the same charges, but the Austrian Supreme Court ordered a new trial because of errors by the Salzburg jury. Johann Mauer testified that it was true that they had acted as guards during the executions of the victims in the Stanislav Ghetto, “but we never took part in any shooting.”
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