(AP-Boston Globe) David Rising - German prosecutors are investigating a suspected former member of Adolf Hitler's mobile killing squads for involvement in World War II massacres carried out by the Einsatzgruppen, the third such case in an effort to bring elderly ex-Nazis to justice. The Einsatzgruppen were SS units and police personnel who followed behind the regular army as it pushed into the Soviet Union in 1941, slaughtering well over 1 million. The latest investigation centers on Wilhelm Karl Friedrich Hoffmeister, 95, suspected of serving with one of the death squads in Ukraine. That group, Einsatzgruppe C, was responsible for the shooting of 33,771 Jews at Babi Yar, near the Ukrainian city of Kiev, on Sept. 29-30, 1941.
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