A German court at Aachen today imposed a one-year sentence on Peter Bongartz, one-time trustee in the Nazi concentration camp of Gross-Rosen, a satellite camp of Osweicim, who was convicted of trampling to death numerous Jewish and non-Jewish patients of the camp hospital where he served as an orderly.
After the war, an American court at Dachau sentenced Bongartz to a long prison term for cruelties to non-German prisoners. The Aachen court tried him for inhumanities against German nationals. He is still serving the original term.
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