Ex-SS Sergeant Convicted

A West German court convicted a former SS sergeant of aiding in the murder of a Jewish concentration camp inmate and of helping to send hundreds of others to their deaths. Heinz-Guenter Wisner, 68, was sentenced in Duesseldorf to five years in prison for giving a poison injection to an unnamed inmate of the Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp in Latvia. The court said that Wisner, as a member of the SS, the Nazi storm troops, took part in the selection process that sent weak and sick arrivals at the camp to their immediate deaths in 1944.