The Munich court sentenced a 58-year-old former Nazi execution squad chief to 10 years in prison and a co-defendant to seven years for the murder of 19,000 Jews and other “racially inferior persons” in Poland and Russia during World War II.
Otto Bradfisch was given 10 years and Wilheln. Schultz 51, seven years. The prosecution had demanded life sentences for the two because they had carried out the killings “with conviction.” A third defendant, Oscar Winkler, received a three-and-a-half-year sentence. Carl Rubberg and Gunther Stroh, two other co-defendants, were acquitted.
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