Erich Koch, former Nazi Commissioner for the Ukraine who directed the mass annihilation of Jews in a number of Ukrainian cities during the Nazi occupation, was today handed over by British guards to Polish authorities to face trial in Poland as a war criminal.
In response to a Polish Government demand for his extradition, a British court on 30/12/1950 ordered that he be sent to Poland. Koch has been on a hunger strike since that date. He was arrested in Hamburg last May by British police, following a report that he was living as a farmhand under a false name.
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