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...interrogating a onetime SS leader, the name "Heuser" kept cropping up in connection with terror against Jews near the Russian city of Minsk. But "Heuser" meant nothing until the Central Office cross index turned up the grisly testimony of a witness at the Nurnberg trials who recalled that one "Obersturmjührer Georg Heuser" had poured gasoline over a dozen Jewish prisoners and burned them alive at Minsk during the war. A series of leads sent investigators to Koblenz, where they found Heuser, now boss of the criminal police for the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. He had risen with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: War Crimes Unforgotten | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

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