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Three Former Nazi Officers Arrested; Killed Polish Jews

November 30, 1960
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Three Nazi-period criminal police were under arrest here today, after a nationwide search initiated by the Central War Crimes Commission. They are charged with killing an “undetermined number of Jews in Poland.”

Hermann Worthoff and Johannes Muller were seized in the Rhineland and Georg Hoffmann was arrested in Limburg where he was acting chief of the Hessian State Criminal Police. Hoffmann was charged with participation in the extermination of prisoners carried out by the SS in the Madjanek and Lublin concentration camps.

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