The public prosecutor in Kiel has brought charges against four former SS officers for complicity in the murder of at least 12,000 Jews in Belgium in 1942-44. They are Ernst Ahlers, 65, a former court judge; Konstantin Canaris, 68; Kurt Asche, 65; and Karl Fielitz, 66, Canaris is a nephew of the former Nazi intelligence chief.
There will be no Bulletin dated March 28 due to the Passover holiday.
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