Two former SS officers on trial here for a week on charges of killing at least 4, 000 Jews during World War II were found guilty today and given prison sentences, one to a term of seven years, the other to three years.
The men are former Major Friedrich Pradel, 65, who got the longer sentence, and his aide, ex-Major Harry Wentritt, 63. They had been charged with complicity in the murder of Serbian and Russian Jews in railroad cars that had been turned into gas chambers.
Pradel, according to the prosecution, had carried out Nazi Party responsibility for the introduction of the use of death railroad cars in which, it was estimated, a total of 100, 000 persons, nearly all of them Jews, had been gassed.
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