This post first appeared as «Hungarian Police Captain, 97, Acquitted of Holocaust-Era Crimes» on The Shmooze blog of the Forward.
A sickly, wheelchair-bound nonagenarian who sat in court Monday covered in a blanket and hooked up to an IVВ was acquittedВ of Holocaust-era crimes.The scene sounds familiar, but it wasn’t John Demjanjuk on trial again.
In this latest attempt to bring World War II criminals to justice, 97-year-old former Hungarian police captain Sandor Kepiro was tried in a Budapest court and found not-guilty of having taken part in the murder of more than 1,000 Jewish and Serbian civilians in the Novi Sad ma*sacre in northern Serbia in January 1942.
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