Franz Novak, former aide to Adolf Eichmann in the wartime occupation of Hungary, was sentenced today by a Vienna court to eight years’ imprisonment for his role in the mass murder of Jews; Since he has already served four years, he will be free in four years.
The jurors found the 51-year-old typesetter guilty of “violence under aggravating circumstances” in the deaths of thousands of Jewish men, women and children who perished from starvation, cold and abuse while packed in cattle cars bound for concentration camps. All eight jurors acquitted Novak of charges of murder of French and German Jews rounded up in 1942 and sent to death camps on his orders.
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