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An 88-year-old former Nazi SS soldier of Dutch origin is well enough to stand trial for the murder of three Dutch resistance fighters, a German court has ruled, overturning an earlier decision. Prosecutors charged Heinrich Boere in April 2008 over the September 3, 1944 killings but a court in Aachen...
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- News Source: 7days | 5 months agoAn 88-year-old former Nazi SS soldier of Dutch origin is well enough to stand trial for the murder of three Dutch resistance fighters, a German court has ruled, overturning an earlier decision. Prosecutors charged Heinrich Boere in April 2008 over...
- News Source: Jerusalem Post | 5 months agoAfter years of legal wrangling, a court ruled Tuesday that Nazi hit man Heinrich Boere must stand trial in Germany for murder for the execution-style killings of three Dutch civilians during World War II. A Cologne appeals court ruled that despite...
- News Source: BBC | 5 months agoThe decision by the appeals court in Cologne reversed a ruling by another German court in January that Heinrich Boere was too frail to be tried. The suspect has acknowledged shooting dead three people in 1944, amid reprisals for resistance attacks.
- News Source: Dutch News | 5 months agoBoere was born in Germany but his family moved to Maastricht when he was two. Boere, 87, was part of an group of SS members code-named Silver Pine who killed Dutch citizens at random in response to attacks by the resistance. Earlier, a lower German...
- News Source: The Local | 5 months agoThe decision by Cologne's appeals court requires Heinrich Boere to stand trial in an Aachen courtroom, reversing the ruling of an Aachen judge who deemed Boere unfit to stand trial in January 2009. Aachen's regional court has yet to set a date for...
- News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader | 5 months agoA Cologne appeals court says suspected Nazi hit man Heinrich Boere is fit for trial on charges of killing three men in the Netherlands during World War II. The ruling Tuesday overturns a lower court's decision that had cited a two-day medical exam in...
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