By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A German court ruled Thursday that an 86-year-old former Nazi convicted of murdering three people during World War II will not serve out a 1949 sentence of life in prison handed down by a Dutch tribunal.
The man, whose identity was kept confidential by the Cologne state court, was convicted 57 years ago in absentia by an Amsterdam tribunal of shooting three people in the Dutch towns of Breda, Vorschooten and Wassenaar in 1944 while serving as a member of Hitler's SS, the court said in a statement.
Five years later, he was found guilty of the killings by a tribunal and sentenced to life in prison. But the Dutch-born man had already escaped the Netherlands and was living in Germany near Aachen, not far from the Dutch border, the court said.
In February, a lower court in Aachen ruled the man, who now lives in a nursing home, could be sent to prison to serve out the sentence. The Cologne court's ruling overturns that decision.
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