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  • Germany: Defense seeks acquittal in WWII killing

    01/06/2014 7:24:35 AM PST · by Olog-hai · 26 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Jan 6, 2014 8:45 AM EST
    The lawyer for a 92-year-old former Waffen SS member charged with killing a Dutch resistance fighter in 1944 asked a German court Monday to find his client not guilty.Dutch-born Siert Bruins, now a German citizen, went on trial in September in the western city of Hagen. He is accused of killing resistance fighter Aldert Klaas Dijkema in September 1944 in Appingedam, near the German border in the northern Netherlands. …