West German police arrested a former SS official during his vacation in a share resort off the Baltic Sea. The 64-year-old man is retired and lives in Duesseldorf. His name was not disclosed. The prosecution said that the former SS official killed at least 24 Jewish inmates in the concentration camp of Riga-Kaiserwald, where he was chief of the first-aid post between 1942 and 1944.
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