The Munster Jury Court today sentenced Dr. Johannes Kremer, the “selection doctor” at the Auschwitz murder factory, to ten years in prison but ordered him released on grounds he had already served the sentence in a Polish prison.
Dr. Kremer was convicted of complicity in the murder of two Jewish prisoners at Auschwitz. He had been sentenced to death during the Cracow trial in 1947 but was pardoned and returned to West Germany in 1958.
In Frankfurt, the prosecution office today announced the arrest of an Auschwitz guard named Demarek. The former SS man was arrested after two former Polish prisoners recognized him at a small Bavarian railway station.
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