A German court today sentenced former S.S. Sergt, Josef Oberhauser to four and a half years at hard labor after his conviction for aiding in the wartime murder of 360,000 Jews.
Announcing its verdict, the court said the accused, aided in mass murders by procuring building materials for constructing gas chambers at a Nazi extermination camp near Belzec, Poland.
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