Former Nazi concentration camp physician Erich Wagner, 46, committed suicide in prison here today after being held for six months on suspicion of having murdered camp inmates by lethal injections.
Dr. Wagner, who slashed his wrists with a razor, was arrested last August after witnesses in a trial of concentration camp guards named him as a doctor who killed prisoners at the notorious Buchenwald camp maintained by the SS in the 1939-40 period.
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