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Sommer Changes Plea For Atrocities Hearing
Sommer 43 presided at Buchenwald cell block until 1948 when an S S court sent him to front for brutality. In 1943 he admitted killing inmates by injections or air but later said he lied and a camp doctor did the shots while he rode in a wheelchair. He argued he did not undertake killings and admitted whipping a woman. The judge adjourned to June 18 due to Sommer's poor health as over 100 witnesses remain.
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