Hermann Krumey, one-time aid to Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi leader who organized the campaign of mass annihilation of European Jewry, was released from prison here where he had been held on charges of murdering 88 children in the Czech village of Lidice, whose entire population was murdered by the Nazis after the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.
Meanwhile, official investigations continue of Krumey’s participation in the deportation and subsequent murder of 450,000 Hungarian Jews in the summer of 1944.
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