Ten former Nazis and Polish and Ukrainian collaborators have recently been sentenced to death by various Polish district courts for responsibility ?n the death of tens of thousands of Jews, according to reports from various parts of the country received here.
In Warsaw, Fritz Fisher, ex-Gestapo chief of Radzyn, was condemned; in Lublin, Joseph Leipold, a slave labor camp commandant was sentenced to death; in Posnan, two Germans–Gestapo leaders Herbert Stricker and Rolf Hoepner were sentenced; in Cracow, the German Otto Klingbeil was sentenced; in Bialystok, the “Bialystok hangman,” August Machall, was sentenced to be hanged; while in Ostrov, Vonbshesk, Samoshsh and Novy Sanok, Edward Lonkovsky, Wilhelm Borrmann, Eugsniush Machomet and Jan Melnyk, respectively, were condemned.
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