Three former SS officers were sentenced to prison terms ranging up to five years each today, and a fourth was acquitted on charges of murdering thousands of Polish Jews at Pinsk during the Second World War.
Former SS Majors Franz Magill, 63, Kurt Wegener, 55, were given five-year-terms, while former SS Lt. Hans Walter Zech-Nenntwich was sentenced to four-and-a-half years. Walter Bornscheuer, 49, was treed for lack of evidence. Magill was found guilty of complicity in the murder of 5,000 Jews in August 1941, and Wegener was convicted for his role in the killing of 1,700 Jews in the same area at the same time. Zech-Nenntwich was found guilty of killing two Jews.
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