Wilhelm Gerke, 57, a former Gestapo inspector in Tilsit, was sentenced today to five years’ imprisonment at hard labor for complicity in the murder of 1,109 Jews and other victims in the German-Lithuanian border region early in the Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union.
Gerke had been sentenced here for the crimes to three and a half years’ imprisonment at hard labor in October 1961. at the same time that Alfred Krumbach, a former Gestapo inspector in the Tilsit region, was tried, convicted and sentenced to three years and three months for complicity in the slaughter of 827 Jews and other victims in the Tilsit region. The prosecutor appealed both sentences as too lenient and both were set aside by higher West German courts.
The Dortmund Jury court yesterday sentenced Krumbach to four and a half years’ imprisonment at hard labor.
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