The Graz state attorney’s office issued warrants today for seven accomplices of Franz Rojko, former commander of the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. Rojko is now on trial here on charges of having personally murdered 82 Jews and other inmates. He also was charged with participating with two former SS officers in the killing of another 102 victims.
The seven accomplices also are wanted for multiple murders at the Czech camp. Mean while, Rojko insisted at his trial, despite detailed testimony in horrible detail, that he did not murder any Jews while commanding the camp.
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