Aachen -
First he needed a hearing aid, could not follow the process. Now it is obviously that. The former SS officer Heinrich Boere (88) has stored in the trial of the murder of three Dutch civilians a confession.
In a statement read out by his lawyer on Tuesday, he described how he shot and killed in 1944 with three alleged accomplices, a resistance fighter. At that time he had the "Repressalmaßnahmen" as deemed necessary and lawful.
He had acted at any time in the consciousness or the feeling of committing a crime, Boere was in the declaration in front of the District Court of Aachen. "Today, 65 years after our actions, I see the course from a different angle," the SS murderer.
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