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Polish Courts Impose Death Sentence on Five Germans for Murder of Jewish Civilians

March 23, 1949
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Five Germans were this week sentenced to death in various Polish courts for crimes against Jews and Poles during the German occupation, it was reported here today. Prison terms were imposed on six other Germans and a Pole for extortion and the persecution of Jews.

In a district court of Lodz, U Germans, former members of the security police, were found guilty of murdering Jewish and Polish civilians and Russian war prisoners. Three of the accused, Herman Ebeling, Paul Miller and Erich Buchboltz, received the death penalty. The death sentence was imposed by a district court in Zamosc on H, Zelenbiller for participation in the mass murder of Jewish civilians and expropriating their property. A Radom court condemned Alfons Himmel, former corporal in the German security police, for murdering and persecuting Jews who were hiding from the Gestapo.

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