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Defendant at Nazi Trial Admits Use of Gas to Kill Jews in Camps

April 29, 1966
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Wilhelm Burger, 61, the principal defendant in the “smaller” Auschwitz death camp trial here, admitted in court today that he knew the Cyklon B gas shipped to the camp was used to kill inmates. He also admitted that he had traveled to Berlin with the valuables taken from Jews murdered in gas vans.

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