Vienna police announced today the arrest of Former SS Colonel Hermann Hoeffle in Salzburg. According to documents at the German Ludwigsburg Center, Hoeffle played a major role in the liquidation of the Jews of Poland, especially those in Lublin and Warsaw.
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