The Wroclaw District Court in Poland, has imposed a death sentence on Felix Polic for complicity in the extermination of the Jewish community in Proskurow in 1942, the Warsaw Folkstimme, Yiddish-language newspaper, reported to day.
Police was commandant of the Ukrainian Fascist Police force in Proskurow from 1941 to 1943. In the autumn of 1942, according to testimony at his hearing, Polic forced six concentration camp inmates at gunpoint to dig a grave and enter it. He then shot them. For several years after the end of the war, Polic was in hiding in Lower Silesia. He was recently recognized by a resident of Proskurow and arrested.
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