Forty-two witnesses are waiting here to testify against Franz Rademacher, 62, a former official of the Nazi Foreign Office, whose trial for the murder of more than 1,300 Serbian Jews opened here today.
Rademacher fled to Syria in 1952 after he was convicted as a war criminal and sentenced to three years and five months imprisonment. His close association with Adolf Eichmann in the deportation of Jews from Yugoslavia was disclosed subsequently at the Eichmann trial in Israel in 1961. Rade-macher returned to West Germany voluntarily last year.
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