Three guards the notorious Flashov concentration ?mp were sentenced to death today, one received life imprisonment and 12 others were ##ven five 15 years prison terms. The sentences were handed down by a Cracow war ##rimes tribunal.
More than 50,000 Jews “processed” for other camps through the Flashov ?p, the court established, while between 10,000 and 12,000 Jews were killed there. The three guards sentenced to death are Edmund Zdoyjowski, Lorenz Landsdorfer and Ferdinand Glaser.
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