The World - News from July 1, 1986
A West German court convicted Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, the leader of an outlawed neo-Nazi group, of torturing followers at a training camp in Lebanon and sentenced him to nine years in prison. But Hoffmann was acquitted of the 1980 murder of prominent Nuremberg Jewish publisher Shlomo Lewin and Lewin’s female companion, Frida Poeschke. Hoffmann was convicted of possession of weapons and explosives, torturing and holding against their will members of his neo-Nazi organization who tried to break away and forging $2 million to finance his operations while in Lebanon five years ago.
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