A former inmate of the Auschwitz death camp, who is now a resident of Tel Aviv, testified today in the third trial here of Auschwitz camp personnel that one of the camp’s inmate guards, Josef Windek, had drowned two prisoners and also attacked prisoners for no apparent reason.
Hans Salz, the witness, also testified that, as early as 1936, three years after Hitler came to power, his father was taken to a concentration camp, and his mother had been imprisoned in 1943. Windek faces charges of committing 1,700 murders as an inmate-guard. These guards were known as “kapos.” Windek wept in the court room after the testimony, and declared that “a great injustice has been done to me.”
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