The chief of police of the upper Austrian town of Steyr, Franz Razesberger, was arrested there today on charges of having ordered the killing in 1942 of 300 Jewish men, women and children in Nazi-occupied Poland. Razesberger was accused of the crime during the trial in West Berlin of two former Nazi police officers.
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