Erich Koch, the Nazi administrator for the occupied Ukraine and northeast Poland, now under sentence of death for the murder of 160,000 Polish Jews during the second World War, has appealed for clemency, it was reported here today. Attorneys for Koch addressed the appeal to the Polish Council of State. A Polish court sentenced Koch to death last March.
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