DDR-Justiz und NS-Verbrechen
Nazi Crimes on Trial

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Case Nr.1049
Crime Category: War Crimes, Other Mass Extermination Crimes
Accused:
Blösche, Josef Death Sentence
Court:
LG/BG Erfurt 690430
Ob. Gericht der DDR 690613
Country where the crime was committed: Poland, Belarus
Crime Location: Baranowicze, Warschau
Crime Date: 4107-4109, 4109-4309
Victims: Jews, Prisoners, Civilians, Members of the Resistance
Nationality: Soviet, Polish
Agency: EK8, Sipo Warschau (Security Police)
Subject of the proceeding: Participation in two mass shootings in the Baranowicze area (July/August 1941). Arrest, mishandling and incarceration of Poles into the Warsaw Pawiak prison. Participation in the deportation of Jews from Warsaw. Shooting of individual Jews during patrols in the Warsaw ghetto. Participation in several mass killings of Jews by way of hangings and shootings before and during the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto

Published in DDR-Justiz und NS-Verbrechen vol. II

 

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