August Kolb, overseer at the infamous Sachsenhausen concentration camp under the Nazi regime, who was arrested last month on the charge of having committed one murder in the camp, is now being accused of 244 deaths.
Kolb was implicated during the trial of SS Guards Wilhelm Schubert and Gustav Sorge who were charged with many murders of Jews and others in Sachsenhausen. They were convicted and have been sentenced to life imprisonment.
During the Schubert-Sorge trial, one witness testified that Kolb had been responsible for the death of an 18-year-old Polish girl at the camp whom he had locked in a cage with wild dogs. Since his arrest on that accusation court authorities said today, it has been found that he was responsible for the murder of at least 244 other prisoners at Sachsenhausen
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