Alexander Kebelec, a former Czech Nazi collaborator who was responsible for the deaths of thousands of Jews at the Theriesenstadt concentration camp, has been sentenced to death by a Prague District Court for war crimes. A report appearing in the Czech newspaper, Rude Pravo, received here today, said that, until the time of his arrest, Kebelec had been living under an assumed name.
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