Trial of Georg Heuser, 56, and 13 co-defendants accused of killing more than 30,000 Jews and Russians during World War II, will open October 30 before the Coblenz Jury Court, it was reported today.
Heuser, a former Criminal Investigation Department chief in Rhineland-Pfalz, was arrested in July 1959 and has been in jail since awaiting trial. Some 200 witnesses are expected to testify at the trial which will last several weeks.
A similar trial of 13 former Nazis charged with complicity in the murder of 130,000 Jews at Chelmno, a Nazi death camp near Poznan, will be held in November.
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