William Doering, 46, a former SS officer, was found guilty a second time on charges of having taken part in mass murders of Jews in Russia during the war and was sentenced yesterday to four years in prison.
The former chief of the Criminal Police in Sieburg, near Bonn, was originally sentenced to six years’ imprisonment by a Bonn court in November 1962. He was then convicted on charges of aiding and abetting the murder of 669 Russian Jews and 16 mentally retarded children during the 1941-42 period as an SS lieutenant in charge of an extermination squad. He received his second trial on an appeal.
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