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Case Nr.892
Crime Category: Other Mass Extermination Crimes
Accused:
Kri., Helmut Georg 3 Years
Court:
LG Bochum 850130
Country where the crime was committed: Poland
Crime Location: Lodz
Crime Date: 42, 420901-420912
Victims: Jews
Nationality: Polish
Agency: Police Gestapo Lodz
Subject of the proceeding: Shooting of exhausted Jews from a railway transport at their arrival at the Lodz ghetto railway station Radegast. Clearing of the ghetto hospitals by shooting the patients and of women who had just given birth, together with the infants. Combing of the Lodz ghetto for children and elderly and sick Jews and deportation of these - over 14000 - Jews to KL Chelmno (Operation 'Sperre'). Shooting of Jews in the course of this operation

Published in Justiz und NS-Verbrechen Vol. XLVI

 

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