A West Berlin court yesterday condemned to death Erich Bauer, a former Nazi official in charge of gassing prisoners in a concentration camp at Sobibor, Poland, who is believed to have participated in the mass extermination of at least 250,000 Jews.
On one occasion, it was charged, he gassed 300 Jewish girls in a special “performance” for the benefit of Heinrich Himmler when he visited the camp. Evidence against Bauer, who was recognized last year by a former inmate of the concentration camp, was given by ex-prisoners who escaped death in 1942 in a revolt against the Gestapo guards.
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