The trial of an aging doctor accused in the deaths of nine children in a Nazi- run euthanasia clinic was suspended indefinitely after a psychiatrist testified the defendant was suffering from dementia. The trial of Heinrich Gross, 84, closed about a half hour after it began, and it appeared unlikely that proceedings will ever resume.
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