Josef Boes, a German Catholic from Hanover, has been executed in Vienna on charges of helping a Jewish friend, Guido Brinkman, to obtain documents indicating he was of Catholic ancestry, Nazi papers received here today report. The papers say that using the forged documents, Brinkman was able to flee from Cologne to Vienna and escape deportation to eastern Europe.
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