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Nazi war criminal gets off

Thursday 02 March 1995 00:02 GMT
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Nazi war criminal gets off

Bonn - Germany's highest criminal court ruled yesterday that Wolfgang Lehnigk-Emden, 72, who massacred 22 civilians in Italy as a Nazi army lieutenant in 1943, cannot be tried because the statute of limitations has expired.

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