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Former S.s. Commander at Nazi Death Camp Executed; Responsible for Death of 20,000 Jews

February 5, 1947
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Siegiried Seidl, a former S.S. commander at the Theresienstadt death camp, was hanged here today. He was convicted last October of torturing and murdering 20,000 Austrian and Polish Jews.

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