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Argentine Court Rules to Extradite Nazi War Criminal to Germany

December 17, 1965
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Federal Judge Luis Maria Rodriguez today approved West Germany’s request for extradition of Gerhard Johannes Bernhard Bohne, who was arrested in Argentina 21 months ago.

Bohne, 65, is wanted by a German court on charges of war crimes specifying that he was involved in the mass murder of 15,000 inmates of hospitals and mental institutions, including Jews and non-Jews, in 1939 and 1940.

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