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Ex-chief of Police Sentenced to Death for Killing Jews in Poland

June 19, 1959
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A Polish court has sentenced Stefan Komolka, former commander of the Fascist White Russian police in the western Polish town of Dokrzyce, to death for mass murders of Jews. Komolka was convicted of participating in extraordinary cruelties and mass executions of Jews in the Dokrzyce Ghetto.

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