The trial of 25 persons accused of participating in the infamous Nov. 10, 1938, programs opened in a German court in the town of Wuerzburg and is expected to continue for several weeks. Host of the accused are former members of the Gestapo and are charged with boning the synagogue in the town of Kitzingen and looting and mistreating Jews in that town. The prosecution pointed out that “99 Jews in Kitzingen were killed on the night of Hov. 10.”
The Ellwangen court imposed a ten-year prison sentence on Erich Kuester, former Gestapo official, for murdering two Jewish inmates of the town’s concentration camp which he directed. Three former Nazi Party members — Karl Louma, Karl Zongel and Georg Johe — were sentenced to six-year terns for participating in the pogrom which occurred in the town of Gross-Ostheim the night of Nov. 10, 1938.
In Rastatt, located in the French occupation zone, the former Gestapo official, Hans Baungardt, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of two French Jews detained in the Nazi concentration camp on the island of Usedom.
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