Terms of life imprisonment at hard labor were requested of the jury court here today for Georg Heuser and one other of his eleven co-defendants in the trial that has lasted since October, in which the 12 Nazis were accused of having murdered some 35, 000 Jews in the Minsk area of Byelorussia during the German occupation of Minsk.
The chief prosecutor of the long mass trial, at which 154 witnesses testified, also requested that prison terms of four years to 12 years be given the other defendants.
One of the specific charges proven against Heuser, said Rudolf Hoffman, one of the prosecutors, was that he had personally killed at least 210 Jews by shooting them with his pistol. He told the court that Heuser also participated, in 1942, in the killing of “several thousand Jews and Russians in the Minsk area.”
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