The Nuremberg district court instituted proceedings today against two former policemen and a third person suspected of the wartime murders of 2,500 Jews in Nazi-occupied Ukraine. The names of the three suspects were not disclosed.
Two Frankfurt public prosecutors were disclosed today to have left for East Germany to study material for the trial in Limburg late this summer of Dr. Werner Heyde, one of the principal euthanasia specialists during the Nazi era. Members of a jury to hear the case were sworn in yesterday.
Dr. Heyde is charged with the euthanasia deaths of at least 100,000 persons deemed by the Nazis as too old or sick to be permitted to continue to live. He will be tried with three co-defendants also accused of key roles in the euthanasia program.
The Frankfurt prosecutors will visit East Berlin and various towns in East Germany to study material in the case offered for inspection some time ago by East German authorities.
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