Nazi camp official attempts suicide
GUSTAV FRANZ WAGNER NZPA Brasilia A former Nazi prison camp official, Gustav Franz Wagner, has tried to commit suicide in prison in Brasilia, the Brazilian police have said. He has been jailed since June 2, after being arrested in Sao Paulo on May 30. West Germany, Austria, and Poland are seeking his extradition to face charges connected with the top post he held in wartime death camps in Poland. He was sentenced to death in absentia by the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal just after the war. The police said that Wagner on Monday broke his spectacles with a shoe and swallowed the pieces of shattered glass. A warden discovered what had happened and Wagner was rushed to prison hospital, where he was said to be out of danger. Wagner is said to have been second in command at Sobibor, in Poland, where more than 500,000 Je. s were executed during the war.
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