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Three Nazi Officers, Charged with Killing Jews, Released on Bail

January 29, 1963
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Frankfurt officials announced today the release on bail of two Frankfurt police inspectors and a Hamburg police inspector who were arrested last September on charges of participation in the mass murder of 15, 000 to 20, 000 Jews in Nazi-occupied Pinsk in October 1942.

Those released were Josef Kuhr and Heinrich Plantius of Frankfurt and Rudolf Eckert of Hamburg. Bail was set at 10, 000 to 25, 000 marks ($2,500 to $6,100) and the former Nazis must report at regular intervals to the authorities.

The detention of Guenther Waltz, 49, of Augsburg, a former police officer charged with murder of Jews at Lublin in Nazi-held Poland, and of Adolph Petch, 57, of Buede-sheim, a former S.D. man at Pinsk, was continued.

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