War Crime Trials
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The trial opened in Wiesbaden early in November of five former SS men charged with complicity in the mass murder of at least 64,822 Jews from the Lublin area of Poland between 1942 and 1944. Two former SS men and two former ” kapos ” at Neidershagen-Wewelsburg concentration camp were charged at Paderborn in November with the wartime murder and complicity in the murder of camp prisoners. Their trial is expected to continue until February. A former Nazi police major admitted in an Essen court that about 30 former high-ranking Nazi police officers formed an organisation some years ago to help defend members of their forces charged with war crimes. Willy Papenkort, 62, is accused of providing unauthorised legal advice to former police officers charged with wartime mass executions of Jews and other civilians and of inciting these men to commit perjury.