The World - News from Nov. 18, 1988
A West German judicial panel acquitted a former Nazi of complicity in the murder of 177 French Jews sent to the death camp at Auschwitz--a verdict that drew shouts of “Nazi murderer!” from victims’ relatives and spectators in the Bonn courtroom. Count Modest Korff, 79, was accused of ordering the deportations of Jews from the Chalons-sur-Marne region of northeastern France, where he served as Gestapo chief in 1942 and 1943. Judge Martin Lickfett said that the panel, made up of three judges and two jurors, decided there was insufficient evidence to tie Korff to the deaths of those he was accused of deporting.
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