Mrs. Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan, the former Nazi concentration camp guard extradited to West Germany from the U.S. last summer is expected to be indicted for war crimes in about two months, an official spokesman disclosed. He said that Mrs. Ryan who is being held at Cologne-Ossendorf prison is one of a group of 7-8 persons facing charges stemming from their activities at the Maidenak death camp near Lublin during World War II.
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