The release of 12 more former Nazi war criminals from Landsberg Prison “for good conduct” was announced here today by the U.S. Army European Command.
The prisoners were serving terms of up to eight years for maltreatment of concentration camp inmates. Most of them are former guards of the camps in which thousands of Jews perished.
Ferdinand Goehler, former superintendant of the Ghetto at Bornhagen, Poland, was sentenced in Stuttgart yesterday by a German court to life imprisonment at hard labor for crimes against humanity.
The 60-year-old Goehler was convicted of murdering two Jewish inmates of the Ghetto and causing bodily injury to others. He had previously been convicted of murdering five Jews and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Goehler said he would appeal the verdict.
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