Trial Opens for 5 Austrians Charged with Murder, Complicity in Death of Poles
January 21, 1969
The trial opened today of five Austrians charged with murder or
complicity in the murder of Jews in Poland while serving in the Nazi
occupation police during World War II. The prosecution was expected to
call 50 witnesses from the United States, Israel, Australia, Poland and
West Germany. The crimes were allegedly committed in the towns of
Kielce, Opatow, Busko, Zdroj and Jedrzejow.
The defendants are Gerulf Mayer, 59, a gendarmery major; Alfred
Lusser, 57, a senior gendarmery official and Karl Popp, 55, a senior
sergeant in the Austrian Army, who are charged with murder; and Karl
Macher, 57, an insurance clerk, and Georg Unterberger, a retired
policeman, who are charged with complicity in murder.
Franz Novak, a former SS officer and wartime aide to Adolf Eichmann,
will go on trial for the third time in Vienna next May on charges of
conspiring to murder 400,000 Jews at Auschwitz concentration camp.
Previous verdicts against Novak were overturned.
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The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
