Ex-Nazi sentenced to 7 years in prison for ordering prisoners' reprisal deaths

From: Daily Breeze | Date: July 6, 2002| Author: The New York Times | Copyright information

Ex-Nazi sentenced to 7 years in prison for ordering prisoners' reprisal deaths

BERLIN -- In what could be one of Germany's last trials of Nazis, a Hamburg court on Friday sentenced a former SS officer to seven years in prison for ordering the reprisal killing of 59 Italian prisoners in1944.

The former SS officer, Friedrich Engel, now 93, showed no emotion as the judge read the g...

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