Helmut Rauca, a Nazi war criminal who was extradited from Canada last May, died in the prison hospital in Kassal where he was being held pending trial. Rauca, 74, a former SS officer, was charged by the state prosecutor in Frankfurt last August with the murders of thousands of Jews in Kowno, Latvia between 1941-43. He was arrested in Canada in 1982.
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