Arthur Desch, a member of the Gestapo in Poland, participated in the liquidation of Jewish ghettos in Warsaw and Zhiradow, was ##tenced to death today by the Warsaw District Court.Konrad Lehr, another Gestapo member, was sentenced to life imprisonment for participating in anti-Jewish persecutions in Falenitz, near Warsaw.
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