The Bochum prosecution office disclosed today that Heinrich Hamann, 54-year-old former SS leader, had confessed he ordered and participated in the execution of about 2,000 Jews near Cracow in Nazi-occupied Poland during the war.
He was also charged with ordering the deportation of about 15,000 Jews to extermination camps and of himself murdering “individual Jews in the most gruesome manner.”
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