A special military court at Lodz today sentenced Gestapo agent Kamilia Podocka to be hanged for denouncing a large number of Jews and anti-Nazi Poles to the German secret police.
Among the persons arrested and murdered as a result of Podocka’s activities was her cousin, Stanislaw Podockski, an active member of the Polish resistance forces Her activities were discovered upon examination of the files of the Lodz Gestapo office.
The same court sentenced Gustav Arndt, a Volkdeutsche medical orderly, to 15 years imprisonment for killing Jews and mentally-deficient Poles by administering large doses of morphine and strychnine. The court announced that Arndt was given a light sentence because it was established that he acted under the direct orders of a German district doctor, H. Weirich, who is now being held by the American military authorities in Germany.
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