Pencil sketch of a Nazi by Dr K Prabhakar Rao

JOSEF KOETALLA . NAZI

 Mr. Kotalla was sentenced to death after World War II for atrocities committed while he was deputy commander of a concentration camp at Amersfoort in the Netherlands. He was convicted of having organized and participated in the execution of prisoners, having set dogs on them and having forced them to live for days at a time in an open‐air barbed wire enclosure without food or bedding. The sentence was later changed to life imprisonment.He died at the age of seventy in the Prison in Netherlands.Mr. Kotalla was held at a prison in Breda in the southwestern Netherlands. He and two other convicted German war criminals, Franz Fischer, now 78, and Ferdinand H. Aus der Funten, 70, became known as “the Breda Three.” Lawyers tried for years to have Mr. Kotalla released, arguing that he was “a wreck, both mentally and physically.”