Three former members of the anti-Semitic Iron Guard organization have been sentenced to heavy prison terms by a Bucharest criminal court which convicted them of “savage extermination of Jews,” the Rumanian press announced today. The defendants, Petre Dumitrescu, Petre Clinici, and Costea Gavrila, all of Radautz, Bukovina, were found guilty of participating in the Legionnaire rebellion of 1941 during which they “tortured the Jews of their town until they expired in the most appalling agony.”
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