The Mosbach court yesterday sentenced a former SS officer to a life term at hard labor on charges of murder and complicity in murder of Polish Jews during the war after rejecting his defense he had simply carried out orders of former Gestapo colonel Adolf Eichmann.
Franz Joseph Mueller, 50, who served as commandant of three camps for Jews at Cracow in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1942 and 1943, was judged guilty of killing 22 Jewish inmates, contributing to the murder of 58 others, four cases of homicide and assisting in the murder of five more inmates.
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