Former SS Man
Is Acquitted
Bonn (JTA) — Bruno Karl
Blach, an accused Nazi war
criminal who eras extradited
to Germany from the United
States following a lengthy
legal procedure, was ac-
quitted last week of all
charges against him.
In addition, Dominik
Gleba, another accused
Nazi, drew a suspended two-
year prison sentence from
the same court.
The prosecution had
charged both men with hav-
ing shot slave labor camp
inmates in Austria in April
1945.
The court in the western
German city of Duisberg
found that it could not prove
guilt against Mr. Blach, who
is 73.
Mr. Gleba, also 73, receiv-
ed a suspended two-year
sentence for complicity in
the murder of one inmate.
That murder occurred dur-
ing a so-called "death mar-
ch," when 2,500 inmates of
the Wiener-Neudorf slave
labor camp were ordered to
walk to the Mauthausen
death camp.
Mr. Blach was extradited
to Germany in 1990 to stand
trial for killing inmates at
two concentration camps
where he served as a guard.
A native of Czechoslovakia,
Mr. Blach lived in the Los
Angeles suburb of La Habra.
The U.S. Justice Department
charged that he entered the
United States illegally in
1956, having lied to U.S.
authorities about his wartime
activities in the Waffen SS.
He maintained he had
been in the German army
and air force.
The Justice Department's
Office of Special Investiga-
tions alleged that Mr. Blach
joined the Nazi Party in
January 1939, becoming a
Death's Head battalion SS
guard and dog handler at the
Dachau death camp from
1940 to 1943 and at the
Wiener-Neudorf camp from
1943 to 1945.
A West German investiga-
tion indicated that Mr.
Blach, as an SS corporal,
killed 38 inmates at Wiener-
Neudorf because they were
too weak to evacuate when
the camp was liberated by
American troops in April
1945.
His deportation trial in
southern California was an
emotionally charged pro-
ceeding where numerous
Holocaust survivors gave
testimony against him.
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