The Limburg public prosecutor’s office said today that Prof. Wernor Heyde, 61-year-old former SS colonel, would go on trial here February 18 on charges of murdering 100, 000 mental patients and Jews in the Nazi euthanasia program.
Prof. Heyde, mastermind of the Nazi “mercy killing” program, is charged with multiple counts of murder. Dr. Hans Hefelmann and Dr. Freidrich Tillmann are codefendants with him. He was arrested in 1959 when police found him working under an alias as chief medical adviser to the Schleswig-Hoistein state welfare court.
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