Indictments were returned today at Coblenz against George Heuser, formerly criminal police chief in the State of Rheinland-Pfalz, and 13 other men, charging them with the murder of “numerous” persons, including Jews, near Minsk, from 1941 to 1944. Heuser, according to the indictments, had acted as the commander of the man who committed the mass murders.
At Limburg, the local prosecutor announced today that the trial of Dr. Werner Heyde, charged with having been a “euthanasia” physician who carried out the killing of victims under the Hitler regime, will not start until late next summer. Preliminary investigations into the Heyde case, the prosecutor said, have thus far resulted in the compilation of 26 volumes of evidence and 50 “additional” files. However, the probes are still continuing, with the questioning of other physicians and former jurists who had served during the Nazi regime.
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