Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, a former SS general who headed a special task force to kill Jews and partisans in Nazi-occupied Poland, went on trial today on charges of killing seven political opponents of the Nazi regime in 1933.
Bach-Zelewski, who was also implicated in the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto revolt in 1943, is already serving a four-and-a-half year prison term for murdering some of Hitler’s opponents in 1934. Five other former SS leaders are on trial with him at Nuremberg.
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