Benno Martin, Nuremberg’s police chief during the Nazi regime, has been acquitted a second time by a German court of sending thousands of Jews from this city to their deaths in Nazi camps in Eastern Europe, despite the fact that he readily admitted in court having arranged and supervised the deportation.
He was first tried four years ago on these charges and was freed after a two-year trial on his plea that he acted on orders from superiors without knowing the ultimate fate in store for the deportees. The German Supreme Court threw out the acquittal and ordered a new trial, but the court disregarded the Supreme Court and the prosecutor’s plea for a three-year jail sentence and again acquitted the ex-police chief.
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