Police announced the arrest today of Richard Hochrainer, a former high officer in the Nazi storm trooper unit, who is charged with having shot nine Jews in an Austrian valley at the end of World War II. Police said that Hochrainer has lived under a false name in Austria for the past 16 years.
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