A German court here today sentenced Fritz Hilda Brandt, one-time Nazi commander of concentration camps in Poland, to eight years’ imprisonment following his conviction on charges of responsibility for the murder of over 1,000 Jewish camp inmates.
The court ruled that the 50-year-old former major in the Nazi Elite Guard “was not the man who decided on life or death of the Jews in the Lemberg area” but that he had “collaborated in the big liquidation machinery.” He commanded the camps at Drohobycz and Boryslaw.
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