AUSCHWITZ TRIAL
Final Evidence To Begin (N Z.P A-Reuter—Copyright) FRANKFURT (West Germany), May 3. The Auschwitz atrocities trial—the biggest in German history—will enter Its final stages today when the Frankfurt court, trying 20 former camp staff is expected to hear final evidence. About 380 witnesses testified in the 17-month marathon trial of 19 former S.S. guards and one farmer trusty prisoner, in the dock for their part in the murder of four million inmates, mostly Jews, of Poland’s Auschwitz concentration camp. Last December 24 lawyers and Court officials visited the death camp to see the gas chambers, the crematoria and open pits where the corpses were burnt, sick bays where victims were given poison injections and interrogation cells where they were beaten to death. Sentences are expected to be pronounced in mid-June.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30741, 4 May 1965, Page 17
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