Erhard Kroeger, 64, was sentenced to three years and four months imprisonment, and Andreas Von Koskull, 62, to 21 months by a Tuebingen court after they were convicted of mass murders as members of a Nazi commando unit in Russia. They were charged with participating in 90 cases of shootings of Jews and Russians in Bobrinol. The mild sentences reportedly evoked surprise.
A court in Hof sentenced Alois Doerr, 68, former commandant of the Helmbrecht concentration camps, to life imprisonment for the murder of five Jewish women in April, 1945. The defendant, who had been free on bail, was arrested and began serving his sentence.
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