Four former SS officers will go on trial here next fall on charges related to the deportation of 1,700 French Jews to the Auschwitz and Sobibor death camps during World War II. The accused are Walter Naehrich, Richard Freise, Modest Korff, all aged 74, and Rolf Bilharz, 73. The case against them is based on investigations conducted by Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld.
The ongoing trial of another former SS officer, Horst Czerwinski, 60, has been moved from Frankfurt to Celle in Lower Saxony where the accused lives. He is charged with murder and complicity in the murders of dozens of Auschwitz inmates. The trial has been interrupted three times because of Czerwinski’s illness and was moved to Celle to relieve him of the need to travel to Frankfurt for each court session.
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