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War crimes trial of New York housewife in Germany
Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan, a 58 year old former New York City housewife, stands among 14 defendants in what could become West Germany’s longest Nazi war crimes trial over Maidanek camp atrocities. Testimony describes mass killings and gassings from 1941 to 1944. the trial began in Düsseldorf in 1975 and is expected to last years more with 70 to 90 percent of witnesses from Poland, Israel, the U.S., Austria and the Soviet Union. Mrs Ryan, the only defendant jailed at start, surrendered U.S. citizenship and now faces deportation considerations.
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Duesseldore
West Germany
New York City
Hermine —Braunsteiner Ryan
Ryan
Mahdanek
Lublin
Poland
Hamburg
Hitler
Duesseldorf
Wolfgang Weber
Associated Press
Alina Sitarska
Justice Ministry
Weber
Israel
America
Austria
Soviet Union
Majdanek
U.S
Ted
Russell
New York
Ryans
Ruhr
Bochum