Joseph Kokot, a Pole accused of having killed at least 150 Jews and Poles during the Nazi occupation and of having indulged in a blood lust even without orders from the Germans, has gone on trial in Zezov, Poland, according to a report which reached here today.
Known as “The Devil, ” to his victims, Kokot is charged with having wiped out a Jewish family of eight persons in the village of Albigava and then followed this mass murder with the shooting of several Polish villagers. Kokot, according to the report, pleaded only “partly guilty. ” He admitted to several killings ” on orders from higher-ups, “
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