The Berlin authorities have arrested two members of the West Berlin police force on suspicion of having murdered Jews during the Nazi regime when both were members of a special police battalion, it was announced here today.
The names of the two suspects were not made public, but one is known to be a detective and the other uniformed patrolman assigned to a Berlin border inspection post, They were among 440 policemen of the special battalion rounded up by the British authorities at the end of World War II and turned over to the Soviet Union for trial as war criminals. These two were serving 25-year sentences when the USSR returned them to West Germany where they were immediately freed.
Meanwhile, the prosecutor in Hanau, Hesse, announced today that the trial of H. Unkelbach, former member of the German police force, on charges of murdering Jews in the Polish city of Czenstochov will open this month. Unkelbach, who was arrested last October, is said to have murdered 30 Jews while guarding them on their daily march between the ghetto and a nearby munitions plant where they were slave laborers.
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