Sentences ranging from 2 1/2 to 15 years in prison were handed down yesterday by a Frankfurt court in the case of six former Nazi officers who were charged with aiding in the murder of some 30,000 Jews in East Poland and Southern Russia in 1942. Five of the men were identified as members of a police battalion that rounded up Jews in Stolin and Pinsk and escorted them to mass executions. Adolf Petsch, 68, a member of the Waffen SS, was sentenced to 15 years in prison. He was charged with participating in nearly 9000 executions. None of the accused, however, will have to serve his sentence due to reasons of ill health. Some 150 witnesses from the United States, Israel, Austria and the Soviet Union attended the 14-month trial.
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