The West Berlin Prosecutor’s Office announced here today that four former SS officers who served in Nazi killer commando groups, in German-occupied Europe, have been arrested and charged with complicity in the murder of at least 6,500 Russian Jews and Gypsies. The men were identified as: Wilhelm Wiebens, 58; Oswald Schafer, 56; Karl Rath, 55; and Heinz Tangerman, 52. They are all employed in West German industry.
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