Applications for pardon were denied here by Queen Juliana today to four German war criminals still incarcerated for life terms at Breda Prison, in Amsterdam.
The four, who are the last of wartime Nazis still in the prison, are: Willy Lages, wartime chief of the Central Office for Jewish Deportation, in Amsterdam, who had been responsible for the deportation of 70,000 Dutch Jews to their death; his deputy, Fritz Ausderfuenten; Fritz Fischer, who had been convicted of deporting 13,000 Jews from The Hague; and Josef Kotaella, commander of the Amersfoort concentration camp.
All had originally been sentenced to death, when they were tried after the war. However, they had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment on appeals in 1951 and 1952.
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