Officials of the Dutch Ministry of Justice here were informed by German authorities today that they have arrested a Nazi Storm Troop leader who ordered the deportation of almost 2,000 Jews from Appledoorn, in 1943.
The man is Dr. Willy Zopf. In 1943, he ordered all 1,900 inmates of the Jewish Mental Hospital at Appledoorn sent to death camps. With the inmates, he sent to the extermination factories also the entire medical, nursing and maintenance staff of the institution, then one of the largest of its kind in Europe.
Zopf, according to the information received here, has been working as a masseur in the small Bavarian town of Murnau for the last seven years. He was apprehended recently, and lodged in the prison at Munich.
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