A 79-year-old former Gestapo agent was convicted Thursday in a German court on charges of helping murder 17,000 people, most of the Jews, at the Majdanek concentration camp in Poland. The court sentenced Alfons Goetzfrid to 10 years in prison, bringing to a close what could be the last major war crimes trial in Germany. During the trial, Goetzfrid denied killing anyone, although prosecutors said he had previously confessed to killing 500 people at the camp on Nov. 3, 1943. A court spokesman said Goetzfrid will not serve time in a German jail because of the 13 years he had already spent in Soviet prison camps.
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