The prosecutor in the trial of 10 former SS officers charged with the mass murder of Jews in Tarnopol, Galicia, in occupied Poland, reduced today his demand on the sentencing of Thomas Massenberg, one of the defendants.
Prosecutor Rolf Sichting originally demanded life imprisonment for murder. However, according to expert testimony at the trial, Massenberg is mentally deficient and therefore his participation in murder in two cases should not be considered an offense punishable by life imprisonment. The prosecutor correspondingly reduced his demand to eight years at hard labor for Massenberg, who was leader of a work camp in East Galicia.
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