For having been an “accessory” to the murder of five Jewish inmates of the Bischadka labor camp in Poland, Nazi guard Jakob Emrich was sentenced to four years and six months at hard labor by the local German Court of Assizes. The prosecution had demanded a seven-year term.
He killed so many Jews, witnesses testified, that the camp commandant used to say; “Let Emrich do it – he likes to shoot.” The defendant himself denied this with the assertion that he shot only such Jews as were unable to work due to sickness. “How was the degree of sickness determined#” the judge asked. “Well, we guards talked it over and selected those who had to be executed,” Emrich replied.
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