Nine former members of the police and fire departments in Aachen will be tried shortly for “crimes against humanity” arising out of the pogroms of Nov., 1938, it was announced today.
There are several hundred persons awaiting trial on charges relating to the pogroms, which were nation-wide. The synagogue in Aachen was totally destroyed and Jewish shops looted.
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