Nazi Hit Man Charged With 3 Murders Goes On Trial (ap)

FILE - Heinrich Boere is seen in front of his house, in Eschweiler, Germany in this 2003 file photo. Boere admitted gunning down three men as part of a Waffen SS death squad - civilians killed in retribution for partisan attacks in Holland, as the tide of World War II turned against the Nazis - but has managed to avoid punishment for more than six decades. On Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009 he faces trial in Germany, charged with killing a bicycle-shop owner, a pharmacist and another civilian. (AP Photo/ Eric Brinkhorst, File)AP – An 88-year-old former member of Adolf Hitler’s fanatical Waffen SS went on trial Wednesday on three counts of murder for the wartime hit-style killings of three civilians in the Netherlands.

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