Nazi Officer Charged in 1944 POW Killings
From Times Wire Reports
German prosecutors said they have filed murder charges against a 93-year-old former Nazi SS leader for ordering the killing of 59 Italian prisoners of war in Genoa in 1944.
The Hamburg state prosecutors’ office gave no date for the trial of Friedrich Engel, who headed the SS in Genoa at the end of World War II.
Engel has acknowledged that he was “jointly responsible” for the killing of the 59 prisoners of war. But he denied last year that he had killed anyone or had given an order to kill.
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