Unrepentant Nazi killer of Dutch civilians, Heinrich Boere, dies at 92

The Associated Press
Published Monday, December 2, 2013 8:43AM EST

BERLIN -- German justice officials say Heinrich Boere, who murdered Dutch civilians as part of a Nazi Waffen SS hit squad during World War II but avoided justice for six decades, has died in a prison hospital. He was 92.

North Rhine-Westphalia Justice Ministry spokesman Detlef Feige said Monday that Boere died Sunday of natural causes in the facility in Froendenberg where he was being treated for dementia.

Boere was on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most-wanted Nazi war criminals until his arrest in Germany and conviction in 2010 on three counts of murder. He was serving a sentence of life in prison.

At trial, Boere admitted killing three civilians as a member of a hit squad of largely Dutch SS responsible for killing countrymen who were considered anti-Nazi.