Joseph William Blum, former commander of the Radom ##tto, was sentenced to death by a court in that city, it was announced today.
Blum pleaded that he was only following orders, but several Jewish survivors ##tified to his brutality. The presiding justice declared that as commandant of the ## and police in Radom, Blum was directly responsible for the death of more than ##000 Jews.
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