Gerhard Martin Sommer, the man in the wheelchair, had indeed been at Buchenwald—but not as a prisoner. As the master of the punishment cellblock between 1938 and 1943, Sommer was the broad ...

Martin Sommer, one-time Buchenwald concentration camp guard, on trial here charged with the murder of 53 Jews and other camp inmates, denied today having killed any one during his service at ...