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Wanted Nazi criminal Roschmann dies in Paraguay hospital
Asuncion reports that Eduard Roschmann, the man known as the Butcher of Riga for ordering the killing of about 40,000 Jews, died in a pauper’s hospital. West German prosecutors sought his extradition from Argentina after his escape in 1948. he used aliases including Federico Bernardo Wegener and matched a described limp and missing toes.
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Asuncion
Paraguay
UPI
Riga
Eduard Roschmann
Latvia
Roschmann
Friedrich Beck
Federico Bernardo Wegener
Beck
War Crimes Tribunal
Hamburg
Argentina
Europe
Wegener
ABC
Rios