Ex-Gestapo Member Acquitted of Murder
A former member of the Gestapo--the Nazi secret police--was cleared Monday of charges of murdering Polish Jews selected for deportation to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.
The Hamburg court acquitted Harri Schulz, 70, on the grounds that evidence against him could not be proven beyond reasonable doubt after more than 40 years.
Schulz had been accused of shooting to death three Jews during the deportation of more than 5,000 Jews to Auschwitz from the Polish town of Zawiercie in 1942 and 1943 and complicity in the murder of four others.
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