Seven former members of the “German Union, ” an organization of German nationals in Hungary, went on trial at Tuebingen today on charges of shooting four Jews in the village of Bratschka in the spring of 1941. The trial of the alleged ex-Fascists is the first of several court proceedings scheduled for the next few weeks in various parts of Germany.
At Stuttgart, a trial is scheduled to open February 26 against Felix Landau, a former leader in the Nazi SS. He is charged with complicity in the murder of 20 Jews near Lodz, in 1941. According to the prosecutor, most of the charges are based on the man’s own diary.
Kurt Mueller, another ex-Nazi, is scheduled to go on trial in March, charged with participating in the murder of a Jew named Fuersthenheim during the “Crystal Night” wave of terror in November 1938.
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